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| 1927 |
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| Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed for allegedly killing a factory paymaster during a robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts. The trial lasted seven years and represented the culmination of widespread attacks on persons of foreign birth. | 1 |
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| 1928, Aug. 27 |
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| The Pact of Paris (Kellogg Pact) signed. | 2 |
| Nov. Herbert Hoover (Republican) elected president over Alfred E. Smith (Democrat) by 444 electoral votes to 87. | 3 |
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| 1929, Jan. 15 |
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| Pact of Paris ratified by the Senate, with the declaration that it did not curtail the country's right of self-defense; that the treaty was not inconsistent with the Monroe Doctrine; and that it did not commit the U.S. to engage in punitive expeditions against aggressor states. | 4 |
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| March 4–1933, March 4 |
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| HERBERT HOOVER, 31st president. | 5 |
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| Oct |
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| STOCK MARKET CRASH, the culmination of the boom market and unrestrained speculation of the Coolidge era. It ushered in a prolonged depression that gradually settled upon the country with increasing unemployment, bank failures, and business disasters. | 6 |
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