Major Events

Chapter 31 · 1919–1929

Eighteenth Amendment ratified, launching Prohibition

1919

The Red Scare and the Palmer Raids

1919–1920

Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women's suffrage

1920

Harding elected on "return to normalcy"

1920

Emergency Quota Act restricts immigration

1921

Sacco and Vanzetti convicted of murder

1921

Teapot Dome scandal exposed; Coolidge becomes president

1923

National Origins Act further restricts immigration

1924

The Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee

1925

Sacco and Vanzetti executed

1927

Herbert Hoover elected president

1928

The stock market crashes, ending the decade's prosperity

1929