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KDKA in Pittsbergh
This was the radio station that got the first official radio licence. Plus, the radio station had only four men that had a job of an engineer, telephone line operator, a standby, and an announcer. -
Prohibition begins.
Prohibition was an infamous time in American history that is often thought of as silly, or wasteful. The time was when alchohol was illegal and many thought it was down right stupid to have such a law. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Women fought to get the amendment passed and in 1920, the women got what they wanted for decades. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
This act was supposed to get rid of immigration in america or just limit the amount of immigrants in the counrty.The main reason for passing the Act was that the flood of immigrants in the recent years had negative wage effects on native-born Americans. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
The species known as the boll weevil moved up from Mexico into certain areas of Texas and was wreaking havoc on cotton crops. The U.S. Agricultural Department considered the cotton boll weevil to be one of the most harmful pests to have existed in the United States. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.
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National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
Congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. In addition, the act completely barred immigration for all those whom the Supreme Court prohibited from obtaining U.S. citizenship, specifically Asians. -
K K K members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
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Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
Tennessee made teaching evolution in school illegal but Mr. Scopes still taught it in his classroom. As a legal contest, the trial dealt with the issue of whether Scopes violated the Tennessee statute in his teaching as a substitute biology teacher; but in the overall activites this public interest--academic freedom, tolerance, bigotry, science, evolution and religion--dominated the court. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
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Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
In 1916, Sacco was arrested for taking part in a demonstration in solidarity with workers on strike in Minnesota. Most people who heard this trial said that it was discrimination and they didn't need to be executed. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
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Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Before Herbert was president, he was an engineer and a humanitarian. Herbert was also the president during and even a little before the Great Deppression happened
