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American History by Decades: 1920s
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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The amendment granted American women the right to vote, 1920
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1916-1970
The Scopes Trial
A landmark legal case in which high school teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, 1925
Black Tuesday
The stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression, October 29, 1929
The Roaring Twenties
A period of economic prosperity and cultural dynamism, characterized by the rise of consumerism, jazz music, and the flapper subculture, 1920s
Prohibition Era
The period during which the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages were banned in the United States, 1920-1933
Teapot Dome Scandal
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
Charles Lindbergh's Transatlantic Flight
The first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, flown by Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft from New York to Paris, 1927
Harlem Renaissance
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
The Red Scare
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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