Married to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the couple became overnight celebrities. In therebellion of the 1920s, Scott became known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age, and Zelda became an emblem of the 1920s liberated woman. They both indulged in an extravagent lifestyle, spending beyond their means on travel, parties, and liquor.

The Yankees purchase the contract of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan against the mortgage on Fenway Park.Yankee Stadium opens with a 4-1 win over the Boston Red Sox before a reported crowd of 74,200. Babe Ruth hits the Stadium’s first home run.

As the US was growing as a nation, many felt they could not share the land with foreigners. This would begin the KKK, camps of Japanese Immigrant camps, and ban of public school for Japanese children.

The 19th amendment guaranteed all American women the right to vote. 

The discovery of vitamin A by McCollum and Davis in 1913, included the discovery of vitamin D and its production in skin caused by ultraviolet light. 

The main cause for the social, economic and political changes that happened in the 1920s was World War 1. This massive change pushed new ideals onto American society. Urban areas, cities and suburbia, embraced the changes and scorned tradition. They opposed things like the Prohibition, and were very liberal about drinking gambling, women’s clothing. Rural areas were the opposite. They had a negative view of African Americans and immigrants in American society. They held up tradition and tried to stick to the old values.

Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.

The Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal. Scopes had been charged with violating the Butler Act. The Tennessee press criticized the town, accusing it of staging a trial for publicity.

Website Title: U.S. History

Page Title: Radio Fever

Website Address: https://www.ushistory.org/us/46g.asp

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Date Published: September 8, 2013

On the night of November 2, 1920, Frank Conrad and his Westinghouse associates announced that Harding had defeated Cox to become the next President. The message was heard as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as Louisiana. The federal government granted the call letters KDKA to the Pittsburgh station and a new industry was born.

Website Title: Office of The Historian

Page Title: The Immigration Act of 1924

Website Address: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act

Author: United States Department of State

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In 1917, the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The uncertainty generated over national security during World War I made it possible for Congress to pass this legislation. The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.