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1920's Timeline
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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
This amendment gave women the right to vote. The amendment stated, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
The worlds first commercial radio station. The station was also the first station to broadcast a college football game, and professional baseball game. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
This greatly restricted immigration into the US. Only 3% of the immigrants comng fro another country were allowed. Majority were from Europe. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
A boll weevil is a beetle that feeds off of cotton buds and flowers. A female boll weevil can lay up to 200 eggs over a 12 day period. It cost the US cotton producers nearly $13 billion. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
This act restricted immigratio even more than the Emergency Quota Act. It dropped the immigration from 3% to 2%, The projection for new immigrants in the years after dropped by hundreds of thousands. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The KKK was against African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Jews, and European immigrants. They were in surch of "pure" americans. By 1927 their activity diminished due to their leader going to jail for second degree murder of a women. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
The Weary Blues was a poem, and was first published in the Urban League magazine. The magazine awarded it the best poem of the year. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
Many people believed that Sacco and Venzetti were found builty because they were immigrants and radicals. There was no proof that the two had murdered the person, yet they were convicted of it. Charles Lindenburgh was the first person to be in New York one day, then be in Paris the next. His flight took 33 hours and 30 minutes. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
He was the 31st pesident of the US. He was a strong supporter of the Prohibition, which is why many people did not vote for him in gthe 1932 election. He tried to combat the Great Depression by creating new work projects, such as the Hoover Dam.
