1920s timeline

By 18DBrenner@mail.blackriver.k12.oh.us

  • Prohibition begins.

    Prohibition begins.
    Prohibition banned the used of alcohol anywhere. However in 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, repealing prohibition.

  • The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
    The 19th Amendment gave all women the right to vote.

  • KDKA in Pittsburgh

    KDKA in Pittsburgh
    A radio company created by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and was the first commercial radio station. It's first air date was August 20, 1920 and is now owned by CBS radio.

  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
    This act restricted immigration into its country. The act imposed a quota that limited the number of immigrants who would be admitted from any country.

  • The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.

    The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
    The boll weevil is an agricultural pest in America.

  • The stock market begins its spectacular rise.

    The stock market begins its spectacular rise.
    Bears little relation to the rest of the economy.

  • National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.

    National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
    This act lowered the quota of immigrants allowed into the United States.

  • Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.

    Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
    John Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in his classroom in Dayton Tenn..

  • Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.

    Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
    On September 26th, 1925, the largest crowd that has ever assembled in the Lynden District, estimated between 12,000 and 25,000 people, attended a rally of supposedly 750 members of the Ku Klux Klan at the Northwest Washington Fair Grounds.

  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
    Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 and was a prodigy and a Renaissance Man in an era when those terms were not frequently applied to people of color.

  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
    Charles Lindbregh flew from New York to paris, and was the first notstop flight.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
    Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder.

  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
    Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa–the first U.S. president to be born west of the Mississippi River.