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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
Beginning in the 19th century, many people, especially women, blamed many of society's problems on beer and whiskey. With the hope of imoroving society, organizations were formed to run against the consumption of alcohol. -
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Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to refer to the 1920s in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
Worlds first commercially licensed radio station. Owned and used as CBS radio. It was a news and spoken words programming from the beginnig. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
Restricted immigration to the united states. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
cotton was under attack by a new beetle known as the boll weevil. On September 27, 1895, an announcement ran in the Chicago Daily Tribune explaining the recent arrival of the boll weevil population to the United States. -
stock market rise
The stock market begins its spectacular rise. Bears little relation to the rest of the economy. -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration of existing proportions of the population -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
probably the strongest and longest lasting Ku Klux Klan presence in the 1920s and 1930s was in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, organized around the towns of Bellingham and Mount Vernon. -
Scopes Trial
A teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach human evolution -
Langston Hughes published “The Weary Blues.”
The poems progress at a self-assured and lyrical pace -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts, United States in 1920. In August with the executions scheduled for midnight on August 22, a bomb exploded at the home of one of the Dedham jurors -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
On the evening of May 21, he crossed the coast of France, followed the Seine River to Paris and touched down at Le Bourget Field at 10:22P.M. The waiting crowd of 100,000 rushed the plane -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Herbert Clark Hoover ( Born August 10, 1874 – Death October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States
