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Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act limited the number of immigrants allowed from any nation each year to 3% of the population of that country in the United States as of the 1910 Census. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an effort to topple the German government on November 8–9, 1923. The Beer Hall Putsch was the name given to this attempted coup d'état. They started at the Bürgerbräu Keller, a beer saloon in Munich, Bavaria. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Through a national origins quota, the Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States. According to the 1890 national census, 2% of the total number of persons of each nationality in the United States were eligible for immigration permits. -
Revenue Act
As an initial attempt to raise much-needed funds for the war, Congress approved the Revenue Act of 1861. This act imposed the first income tax on inhabitants of the United States. Individuals with annual incomes of more than $800 per year were subject to a 3% income tax. -
The Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, occurred in 1925 when science instructor John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which had been rendered unlawful by a recent bill. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 22%. The day is now known as Black Monday, and it represents the largest single-day fall in stock market history. -
WWII Begins
On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland, starting World War II in Europe. On September 3, the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany. The German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, launched the war between the USSR and Germany on June 22, 1941. -
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States against the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.