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KDKA in Pittsburgh
KDKA is a radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920, it is the world's first commercial radio station. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the 1910s most states disenfranchised women. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act restricted immigration into the United States. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
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. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise
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. -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population. The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the United States. It had the effect of giving low quotas to Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
Interest in the Ku Klux Klan increased as immigrants continued to enter the United States.
With more than five million members, the Klan marched to show its strength. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
John Scopes was taken to court and eventually fined for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
The Weary Blues" is a poem written by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925,[1] "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. It was awarded best poem of the year by the magazine. The poem was published in Hughes' first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues.[2] -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder. On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his guard. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate
