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Weary Blues
"The Weary Blues" is a poem first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. One of the poem's themes is the importance of music in everyday life. It has been credited as one of the first poems to combine music and poetry. -
Prohibition begins
Prohibition banned the sale of manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol in the United States. The dry period lasted for fourteen years and led to the first and only time an Amendment of the United States Constitution was repealed -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
The KDKA was the worldś first commercial radio station. It was brodcasted from Pittsburgh, Penslyvvania created by the Westinghouse Electric Corportation on November 2, 1920. This time period, music was a hit. -
Congress enacts
The Emergency Quota Act was a federal law limiting the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country. Most important turning-point in American immigration policy”since it added two new features to American immigration law numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a muffins. -
KKK
On August 8, 1925 more than 40,000 members of the Kun Klux Klan marched through the streets of Washington D.C. The march was organized to counter reports of faltering enrollment. It grabbed the nation's attention with an iron fist, and brought light to rasism in the 20th century for the first time. -
Charles Lindbergh takes flight
It took thirty-three and one half-hours for Charles Lindbergh to travel 3,500 miles across the Atlantic. This was one of the first advancements in aviation. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover took office the year the stock market crashed. Because he was leading the nation when this unfortunate event happened, he was given the blame. -
Stock Market Begins
Companies began to increase, which caused the economy to grow. With technology improving quickly, many people expected the economy to rise. People began to receive more income, therefore they spent more and stock prices began to rise. People invested billions of dollars in the stock market expecting to make millions on the rising stock prices. -
Boll Weevil
A Boll Weevil is a beetle that feasts on cotton buds and flowers. Migrating from Mexico, in 1922 the Boll Weevil destroyed more than 85% of the South's cotton crops.This devastated many southern jobs and hurt the economy.
