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1920 Prohibition begins with the 18th amendment in this year 1927 Years of Charles Lindberg's Transatlantic flight 1923 Harding dies in office and Coolidge becomes president in this year 1929 Stock Market Crash Teapot Dome Scandal bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves Herbert Hoover Was the secretary of commerce before he was president Dawes Act adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians Five Power Treaty as a treaty to limit naval construction and prevent an arms race among the victorious powers in the wake of World War I. Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy. Assembly Line manufacturing line created by Henry Ford National Origins Act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890 Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League KKK is the name of an organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. The Scopes Trial was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school William Jennings Bryan was a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, and an opponent of Darwinism on religious grounds. With his deep, commanding voice and wide travels, he was one of the best known orators and lecturers of the era. Because of his faith in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner." Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial Flappers a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz St. Valentines Day Massacre 1929 murder of 7 mob associates as part of a prohibition era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s, or the Roaring Twenties, from which jazz music and dance emerged with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. Cotton Club a famous night club in Harlem, New York City that operated during Prohibition that included jazz music. Harlem Renaissance a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke Babe Ruth nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball Charles Lindberg "The Lone Eagle"; was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Black Thursday October 24, 1929, the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange Normalcy the good life