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The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment is passed. The amendment gives and U.S. citizens the right to vote. This was the start to Prohibition. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
The KDKA was the first comercial radio broadcasted in Pittsburg PA. It was the first Comerical lisenced radio on the air. -
Emergency Quota Act.
In 1921 the U.S. passed the Emergency Quota act. This act restricted the flow of immigrants from Europe to the U.S. This was due to over populated places. -
The boll weevil
The Boll Weevil bug was ariginated from Central America. These bugs like to feed on flowers and cotton buds. In the 1920s these bugs devistated the souths cotton crop due to their likeing for cotton. -
The Stock Market Suprising 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
The National Origins Act was made to replace the Emergency Quota act. This meant that the 3% cap set on immigrant flow was restricted down to 2% -
The Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Klu Klux Klan
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. -
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues" is a poem written by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, "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. -
Lindberg
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airborne and barely cleared the telephone wires at the field's edge. The crowd of 500 thought they had witnessed a miracle. Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. -
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. -
The election of 1928
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, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term.
