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Prohibition begins.
Prohibition banned the sale and manufacturing of alcohol in the United States. The dry period lasted fourteen years and led to the first and only time an Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was repealed. -
kdka in Pittsburgh 1920
It is the worlds first commercial radio station. It was made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. Which gave women a voice in government. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
This act restricted any immagration into the united states. Although it intended as temporary legislation, the Act proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
A Boll Weevil is a beetle that feasts on cotton buds and flowers. Migrating from Mexico, in 1922 the Boll Weevil destroyed more than 85% of the South's cotton crops.This destroyed many southern jobs and hurt the economy. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise
Companies began to increase caused the economy to grow. With technology improving many people expected the economy to rise. People invested billions of dollars in the stock market expecting to make millions on the rising stock prices -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee
On August 8, 1925 more than 40,000 members of the Kun Klux Klan marched through the streets of Washington D.C. The march was organized to counter reports of faltering enrollment. It grabbed the nation's attention with an iron fist, -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.
The Weary Blues" is a poem first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. One of the poem's themes is the importance of music in everyday life. It has been credited as one of the first poems to combine music and poetry. -
Nicolas Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti shot and killed a paymaster for a shoe company, then escaped with $15,000. The two men were considered anarchist. The importance of this event was that their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity -
Herbert hoover
Herbert Hoover took office the year the stock market crashed. Because he was leading the nation when this unfortunate event happened, he was given the blame.
