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The Teapot Scandal
The Teapot Sandal started when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior had started to lease the navy's oil reserves to private oil companies at low rates and this event had brought to light the corruption in the government. This event had tarnished Warren G. Harding's administration. -
Warren G. Harding dies
After a trip to Alaska, Warren G. Harding had fallen ill and had died leaving Calvin Coolidge to finish Warren G. Harding's term as the new President until the next election comes up. -
Calvin Coolidge get elected as President
Calvin Coolidge had won the Presidency against the competitors John W. Davis, and Robert M. La Follette. Calvin Coolidge had gotten 382 Electoral College votes compared to 136 (Davis) and 13 (La Follette). -
Charles Lindbergh nonstop flight across the Altlantic
Charles Lindbergh had completed the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic on his heavily modified aircraft, The Spirit of Saint Louis. Charles Lindbergh left Roosevelt Airfield and it took him thirty-three and one-half hours to reach Paris. -
The first television
American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth had created the first television that could be operated at home and he had changed history forever. -
Construction of Mount Rushmore
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was the sculptor that was tasked with making the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, that would be completed fourteen years later. -
Herbert Hoover gets elected as President
Herbert Hoover wins the election against Alfred E. Smith because Herbert Hoover had 444 Electoral College votes compared to Alfred E. Smith's 87 Electoral College vote. -
The Stock Market Crashes and led the country into the worst depression in history
The postwar prosperity had ended in 1929 because the stock market had lost $50 billion and that was the reason the Great Depression had happened since the stock holders started to sell all the stock they had incase the prices had drop significantly. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as President
Franklin D. Roosevelt had won the election in a landslide because he had received 472 Electoral College votes compared to 59 Electoral College votes for Hoover. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was designed to address the poor depression economics and try to get the country out of the depression by dropping the gold standard. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt implements his social security system
Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented his social security system because he wanted to help the retired people to have a way for them to survive, so the retirees would be payed out in two years starting at 2% of the first $3,000 to each retirees. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as President for a second term
Franklin D. Roosevelt won his second term in a landslide because he got 523 Electoral College votes compared to his competitor Alfred Landon who got 8 Electoral College votes. -
The United States declared its neutral in the war
The United States declared its neutral in the war because the government officials and public did not want to get involved in a war that they did not have to fight and lose Americans lives if their interests are not involved in the war. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as President for his third term
Franklin D. Roosevelt won in another landslide election because he had received 449 Electoral College votes compared to his competitor Wendell Wilkie who had got 82 Electoral College votes. -
U.S. passes the Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was designed to sell their weapons to other nations that needed weapons to fight off the Germans. The British received a $7 billion loan to buy weapons from the Americans, while the Soviets received a similar $1 billion loan to buy American weapons to help with the fight over in Europe. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a disaster for the American fleet because 8 battleships were damaged or sunk and 1,177 sailor and marines perishing in the attack. The United States had declared war against the Japanese on December 11th,1941 and the American people had backed the war against Japan to get revenge for the people who died in the Pearl Harbor attack.
