1920s at a Glance

• The First Transatlantic flight: Charles Lindbergh , James Doolittle first one-day.
• Mail was now transported by Air flying companies as they outbid the railroads (1926).
• Business travelers were able to do so on scheduled coast to coast flights.
• Flappers, the Roaring Twenties, prohibition, speakeasies and bootleg whiskey .
• Gangland warfare, Sing Sing, sawed-off shotguns, and Al Capone.
• Women vote for the first time in a national election (1920).
• Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debate Scopes Trial.
• Ku Klux Klan is active in the south and Midwest. Burnings multiply.
• Stock Market Crashed.
• October 24, 1929, bank closed – panic on Wall Street.