American Decades

Important Events in Law and Justice, 1920–1929

On January 2, federal agents begin nationwide raids on suspected political radicals. More than four thousand people are detained in thirty-three cities.
On January 5, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Volstead Act, the legislative measure passed to implement the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
On January 16, Prohibition officially begins.
On April 19, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that to implement an international treaty, Congress may enact legislation that otherwise might be construed as a violation of an individual state's sovereignty.
On May 5, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, known anarchists, are arrested for the murder of two men during a payroll robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, some weeks earlier.
On May 15, Chicago gangster "Big Jim"...

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