Adventures untold United States Timeline

1915 AD

Second Ku Klux Klan Founded

Criminal Activity

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.

1919 AD

15 January

Boston Molasses Flood

Disaster / Destruction

A 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.

1919 AD

April

1919 AD

June

Galleanisti Bombings

Criminal Activity

A 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.

1920 AD

January

1920 AD

12 August

Charles Ponzi Runs His IRC Scheme

Financial Event

Ponzi bilks thousands of investors in a pyramid scheme built upon international postal coupons.

1920 AD

17 January

Prohibition Begins

Civil action

As a result of the Eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating beverages in the United States is prohibited.

1920 AD

19 May

Matewan Shootout

Civil action

Agents 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.

1920 AD

26 August

Women's Suffrage Ratified

Political event

With Tennessee being the 36th state to ratify the Nineteenth Ammendment, women receive the right to vote in the United States of America.

1921 AD

4 March

Warren Harding Becomes President of the United States

Political event

Warren Harding was inaugurated as the President of the United States, succeeding Woodrow Wilson.

1921 AD

8 September

First Miss America Pageant

Cultural event

A 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.

1922 AD

1 July

1922 AD

1 September

Railroad Strike of 1922

Civil action

Roughly 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.

1922 AD

22 September

Cable Act of 1922

Political event

The 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.)