Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1921-1929
Era
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For the 1920s, the only events listed in the chronology are those not covered in the Snapshot link.
Date |
Presidential
Election/Event |
Beyond
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Government Institutions |
US Economic Development |
Issue/Organization
Development |
Political Party
Development |
1921 |
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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 |
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1922-11 |
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1922-1926 – speculation Buying on “margin” |
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Democratic gain |
1923-08 |
Harding dies; Coolidge President |
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1922-1929 -stagnant wages |
Growing isolationism Immigration Act of 1924 |
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1924 |
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Reparation plan; loans to Germany – Notice the debt-reparations
cycle and how the U.S. is involved
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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 |
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Veterans Bonus Bill to help veterans of World War I
- passed over Coolidge veto |
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1924 |
Calvin Coolidge
vs. John W. Davis vs. Robert LaFollette |
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Republican win |
1925 |
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Scopes Trial |
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1926 |
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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 |
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1927 |
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Dwight W.
Morrow – oil protections for corporation
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Mc-Nary-Haugen – vetoed by Coolidge |
Market saturation starts - Consumer spending - Cars - Houses -Steel |
Sacco-Vanzetti case -commission investigates; execution |
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1927-08 |
Coolidge withdraws |
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1928-08 |
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Kellogg-Briand
Pact – “outlawry of war” – 62 nations sign
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1928-11 |
Herbert Hoover vs. Al Smith
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Republican win Klan attack on Smith |
1928-12 |
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Repudiation of
Roosevelt Corollary (Theodore Roosevelt’s policy); beginning of the Good
Neighbor policy[2]
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1929 |
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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
The next administration is under a Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he also does
what