The second Klan is founded by William Simmons in Georgia. It is spreading throughout the South and particularly into Indiana. Its goals are to oppose "non-whites", including Blacks, Catholics, Jews, and Eastern Europeans.
United States
Major events within the United States.
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1915 AD
Second Ku Klux Klan Founded
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1919 AD
15 January
Boston Molasses Flood
Disaster / DestructionA tank containing 13,000 tons of molasses burst in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, creating a wave that killed 21 people and injured more than 150.
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1919 AD
April1919 AD
June
Galleanisti Bombings
Criminal ActivityA group of anarchists supporting the insurrectionist Luigi Galleani mail 28 bombs to a wide variety of government officials and prominent business leaders across the country. The housekeeper and wife of Senator Thomas Hardwick are severely injured while opening one of the packages. In June, nine more much larger bombs are detonated at the homes of other officials, as well as the Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Philadelphia. One night watchman and one of the bombers are killed.
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1920 AD
January1920 AD
12 August
Charles Ponzi Runs His IRC Scheme
Financial EventPonzi bilks thousands of investors in a pyramid scheme built upon international postal coupons.
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1920 AD
17 January
Prohibition Begins
Civil actionAs a result of the Eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating beverages in the United States is prohibited.
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1920 AD
19 May
Matewan Shootout
Civil actionAgents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency hired by the Stone Mountain Coal Company are ambushed in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, after they evicted several famlies of coal miners and attempted to arrest the town's sheriff. Seven detectives were killed along with two miners and the town's mayor.
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1920 AD
26 August
Women's Suffrage Ratified
Political eventWith Tennessee being the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Ammendment, women receive the right to vote in the United States of America.
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1921 AD
4 March
Warren Harding Becomes President of the United States
Political eventWarren Harding was inaugurated as the President of the United States, succeeding Woodrow Wilson.
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1921 AD
8 September
First Miss America Pageant
Cultural eventA pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey as the "Inter-City Beauty Contest". It's won by Margaret Gorman, Miss Washington DC, who is later named "Miss America" by the contest officials.
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1922 AD
1 July1922 AD
1 September
Railroad Strike of 1922
Civil actionRoughly 400,000 railroad workers go on strike, nearly shutting down the nation's railways. The strike is eventually broken when Attorney General Harry Daugherty used an unconstitutional injunction against union assembling and picketing. This was enforced by hundreds of Deputy US Marshals who were little more than goons hired by the railroads.
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1922 AD
22 September
Cable Act of 1922
Political eventThe Cable Act of 1922 reverses former immigration laws causing a woman to lose her US citizenship if she married a foreign man. (This loss of citizenship did not apply to men marrying foreign women.)
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