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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
Prohibition beings the rise of crime and illegal bootlegging. Now women are starting to work more and have more power with the passing of the 19th amendment. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
KDKA was the first broadcasting radio station the station broadcasted sporting events like boxing and reported the returns of Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox presidential election. The station further expanded the way people got information. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
This Immigration Act of 1921 changed the views that Americans had of immigrants in the US. It also changed the way that immigration worked from then on.T -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
The cotton crop is very important for the American economy, and the devestaion of this crop greatly effected it. Thousands of farmers were in debt and this drove many of them to migrate north. -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
Congress puts national quotas in place on immigration.Now Asians are subject to discrimation in the United States. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
As immigrants contunied to enter the United States the KKK membership numbers began to rise. One reason is the thought that maybe they were taking their spot in the eork force. The KKK then began to grow in strength and have over 5 million members. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
This was a major creatity and it was highly associated with the Harlem Renaissance.This showed the perspective of Aferican Americans durning this time. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
This event shows the prejudices about foreigners durning the time of the Red Scare. This just shows the way that the American people were judging the immigrtants. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Hover was very relunctant to employ governemnet resources. In turn this did not help the government and it worsened the depression.
