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Too Much Cotton
Cotton prices peak at 42 cents a pound, prompting southerner farmers to plant the largest crop in history. The resulting overproduction causes a decrease in prices. Cotton fell 10 cents a pound by early 1920s. -
Palmer Raids
It began by launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar red scare sweeping the nation -
Immigration Quota Established
Congress passes immigration restrictions. The act sharply curtails the quota for those areas while retaining a generous amounts of money for immigrants from Northern and Western Europe, targeting at the “undesirable” immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe. -
Sacco-Vanzetti Trials
Immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti eventually we’re convicted for murder and they were then executed. -
Tariffs up
Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect. -
Immigrant Radicals Executed
Italian immigrants executed by electric chair. They were being charged for being part of a stickup gang. -
Stock Market Collapse
The American stock market collapses, causing the Great Depression. -
Chicago Mob
