Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1903 First feature-length film, The Great Train Robbery, released

1909 Sigmund Freud comes to America: psychoanalyst shocks Americans but his theories become prominent in a popularized form

1914 Henry Ford introduces moving assembly line: new mass production technique in automobile industry

1915 Modern Ku Klux Klan founded: starts in Georgia but becomes influential throughout the country

1916 Marcus Garvey brings Universal Negro Improvement Association to America: Jamaican starts black nationalist movement

1919 Eighteenth Amendment outlawing alcohol use ratified: Constitutional ban on the manufacture, sale, import, or transport of alcohol

1920 First commercial radio broadcast: from KDKA, Pittsburgh

Nineteenth Amendment grants women right to vote:

Warren Harding elected president: calls for a return to "normalcy"

1921 Congress enacts quotas on immigration: in the National Origins Act

Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act: legislation to fight high rates of infant and maternal mortality

American Birth Control League organized: Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League joins with Voluntary Parenthood League

1921-1922 Washington Naval Disarmament Conference: five largest naval powers agree to limits on ship construction

1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff raises rates: Republicans support protection of U.S. industries

Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt published: stinging attack on small-town business

T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland published: epic poem bemoans the emptiness of modern life

1923 Time Magazine founded: first weekly news magazine issued

Harding dies

Calvin Coolidge becomes president

Harding scandals break: scandals involving members of Harding's inner circle begin to surface

1924 Dawes plan to stabilize German inflation: U.S. restructures German war reparations payments

Coolidge elected president

1925 John T. Scopes convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee: trial is carried by papers and radio throughout the nation

Alain Locke’s The New Negro published: collection of works of young black artists and writers

1927 Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic: young American crosses Atlantic alone by plane

Sacco and Vanzetti executed: after years of appeals and protests, two Italian immigrants executed

First talking film, The Jazz Singer, released

1928 Herbert Hoover elected president: defeats Democrat Al Smith, former governor of New York

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