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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
To the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
It was the world's first commercial radio station. The studio located at the combined CBS Radio Pittsburgh facility on Foster Drive in Green Tree and transmitter in Allison Park -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
It restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
They ruined cotton crops and the pest caused a decrease in cotton productivity over a period of thirty years. And the effects of the boll weevil became more far-reaching and added to the volatility farmers faced in the cotton industry. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise. National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act. it restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C. Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
William Jennings Bryan,he was a supporter of Prohibition and attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
The Weary Blues, he lived in Mexico, New York, and traveled through Africa and Europe by working a variety of odd jobs. He died in his beloved Harlem in 1967, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and author of numerous plays, poems, and novels. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic,he flyes non stop to new york to paris then from paris to new york. And Sacco and Vanzetti was executed. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
He was the 36th quadrennial presidential election. Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term
