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American History by Decades: 1920s

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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

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The amendment granted American women the right to vote, 1920

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The Great Migration

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The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1916-1970

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The Scopes Trial

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A landmark legal case in which high school teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, 1925

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Black Tuesday

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The stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression, October 29, 1929

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The Roaring Twenties

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A period of economic prosperity and cultural dynamism, characterized by the rise of consumerism, jazz music, and the flapper subculture, 1920s

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Prohibition Era

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The period during which the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages were banned in the United States, 1920-1933

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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A bribery incident that took place at the Teapot Dome Oil Reserves in Wyoming and California, involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding, 1922-1923

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Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight

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The first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, flown by Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft from New York to Paris, 1927

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Harlem Renaissance

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An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s and known for the flourishing of African-American arts and culture

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The Red Scare

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The promotion of widespread fear over potential rise of communism or anarchism by society and the state, peaking during the early 1920s

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