America Dates Flashcards
(26 cards)
1919
Prohibition introduced
1920
Women can vote
1921
Emergency quota act to limit immigration
1923
New republican president Calvin cooliage
1924
National origins act to limit immigration
1927
First talkie
Execution of sacco and venzetti
1928
Republican Herbert hoover becomes president
1929
Wall Street crash
1931
Al capone imprisoned for tax evasion
Bonus army marchers march on Washington
1932
Franklin d Roosevelt wins election
1933
The first 100 days kick starts new deal
Prohibition ends
1935
Rooservelt creates second new deal
1941
America officially joins the war
1945
Harry Trueman becomes president
End of ww2
1950
Senator Mccarthy begins his campaign against communists
1953
Republican Eisenhower becomes president
1954
Segregation in schools challenged by brown vs board
1955
Montgomary buss boycott
1960
Greensboro sit ins
1961
Freedom rides
Democrat john f Kennedy becomes president
1963
March on Washington
Kennedy assassinated
Lyndon b Johnson becomes president
Equal pay act passed
1964
Civil rights act legally ends segregation
1965
Voting rights act makes racial discrimination in voting illegal
Malcolm x assassinated
1966
National organisation for women founded
