Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1921-1929 Era

For the 1920s, the only events listed in the chronology are those not covered in the Snapshot link.

 

Date

Presidential Election/Event

Beyond America/ Foreign Policy

Government Institutions

US Economic Development

Issue/Organization Development

Political Party Development

1921

 

Washington Naval Conference – quotas (disarmament), Open Door in the Pacific, territorial status quo

General Accounting Office (GAO) – independent audit for Congress

Bureau of Budget[1] in Executive Branch

Federal Highway Act

Sacco-Vanzetti case begins

 

Harlem Renaissance – this decade

 

1922-11

 

 

 

1922-1926 – speculation

Buying on “margin”

 

Democratic gain

1923-08

Harding dies; Coolidge President

 

 

1922-1929 -stagnant wages

Growing isolationism

Immigration Act of 1924

 

1924

 

Reparation plan; loans to Germany – Notice the debt-reparations cycle and how the U.S. is involved

Congressional investigations – scandals. Examples: Teapot Dome, Daugherty actions

Plan for agricultural relief to help farmers (See McNary-Haugen)

1924 – Klan – est. 4-4.5 M

 

 

 

 

 

Veterans Bonus Bill to  help veterans of World War I -  passed over Coolidge veto

 

1924

Calvin Coolidge vs. John W. Davis vs. Robert LaFollette

 

 

 

 

Republican win

1925

 

 

 

 

Scopes Trial

 

1926

 

 

McNary-Haugen,  legislation to help farmers - passed by Congress

Reduction in income tax, estate tax to help the wealthy (Revenue Act)

Klan March on Washington

 

1927

 

Dwight W. Morrow – oil protections for corporation

Mc-Nary-Haugen – vetoed by Coolidge

Market saturation starts

- Consumer spending

- Cars

- Houses

 -Steel

Sacco-Vanzetti case -commission investigates; execution

 

1927-08

Coolidge withdraws

 

 

 

 

 

1928-08

 

Kellogg-Briand Pact – “outlawry of war” – 62 nations sign

 

 

 

 

1928-11

Herbert Hoover vs. Al Smith
 

 

 

 

Republican win

Klan attack on Smith

1928-12

 

Repudiation of Roosevelt Corollary (Theodore Roosevelt’s policy); beginning of the Good Neighbor policy[2]

 

 

 

 

1929

 

 

 

Loans of 2/3rd of face value stock to buy stock

 

 

 

 

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[1] Now called OMB (White House Office of Management and Budget), a powerful organization able to control through its “circulars” regulatory and purchasing actions of all organizations under the Executive Branch

[2] These actions are under Hoover’s administration (a Republican administration); he repudiates the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican) and initiates the Good Neighbor Policy.

 

The next administration is under a Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he also does what Hoover did.