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Prohibition Begins
a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" -
Teapot Dome Scandal
scandal during the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes -
President Coolidge is elected
On November 4, 1924, Calvin Coolidge was elected President of the United States. Vice President Coolidge had assumed the office of the presidency the year before after President Warren Harding died. But Coolidge then had to convince the American public to elect him President in his own right. -
The Spirit of St. Louis off across the Alantic
The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. -
The Spirit of St. Louis lands in Paris
American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours before. -
Hawley-Smoot Tarrif Act
The Tariff Act of 1930, otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff (P.L. 71-361) was an act, sponsored by United States Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. -
Black Tuesday
October 29th, 1929. This is the date of the most famous stock market crash in history. Stocks lost 13% of their value on Black Tuesday. The date is considered the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Dust Bowl Years
a bad storm from loose dirt and gravel. It lasted 10 years and it was also known as the "dirty thirties". -
bonus army march
was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
was the 32nd president of the U.S. -
President Hoover is elected
Hoover was elected with an overwhelming majority and went into the White House with great hopes and aspirations. Those hopes were dashed seven months later when the stock market crashed and the country went into a deep depression. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. -
Civilian Conversation Corps.
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Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)
Roosevelt asked Congress to create “a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.” On May 18, 1933, Congress passed the TVA Act (PDF, 175KB). -
FDIC
an independent agency created by the U.S. congress to maintain stability -
Prohibition Ends
It began officially on January 16, 1920 (exactly a year after the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution) and ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. -
works progress administration
the largest new deal agency employing millions to carry out public work project -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act* became law above President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature. The Social Security Act is one of the truly momentous legislative accomplishments in United States history. Enacted in the throes of the Great Depression. -
the beinning of ww2
the day ww2 started
