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KDKA in Pittsburgh
It was a radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It had Weather reports and just news about new things. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
Banned the production, importation, and transportation of alchoholic beverages.Women tended to suppoert the prohibition act. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
It restricted immigration to the united states Although intended as temporary legislation.It also added two new rules to immigration to the united states. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
It had alot of crop losses over 70 percent.Since the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop and they lost tens if billions of dollars. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
People started to think that was permanent and it also had the power to pull an economic crisis. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
Since their were more immigrants coming to the united states so was the klu klux clan getting bigger so since they were so big and strong they marched to show how big they were -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
Gave a big example of the harlem renaissance and sange poetry of the african american life and culture. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
They were italian immigrants that killed people and robbed banks during the red scare. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president
Herberts actions help the worst economic problems and the effects of the great depression
