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Prohibition begins.
Prohibition banned the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol in the United States. The dry period lasted fourteen years and led to the first and only time an Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was repealed. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
The KDKA was the world's first commercial radio station. It was broadcasted from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The Nineteenth Amendment “prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex”, which gave women their voice in government. This made the constitution true when it said “we the people” because women are people too. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
The Emergency Quota Act was a federal law limiting the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country. “most important turning-point in American immigration policy” since it added two new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a muffins. -
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.
This act replaced the Emergency Quota Act. It restricted the number of immigrants to 150,000 people with a limit of 2% of each nationality already in the US, except for Asians who were not allowed in the US at all. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee
The Scope “Monkey” Trial was a famous legal case in America during 1925 where high school teacher John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. It was the first legal clash between groups in the debate of universal origins. This case was important for evolution to be taught as a science in schools -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
On August 8, 1925 more than 40,000 members of the Kun Klux Klan marched through the streets of Washington D.C. The march was organized to counter reports of faltering enrollment. It grabbed the nation's attention with an iron fist, and brought light to rasism in the 20th century for the first time. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
"The Weary Blues" is a poem first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. One of the poem's themes is the importance of music in everyday life. It has been credited as one of the first poems to combine music and poetry. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
It took thirty-three and one half-hours for Charles Lindbergh to travel 3,500 miles across the Atlantic. This was one of the first advancements in aviation. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti shot and killed a paymaster for a shoe company, then escaped with $15,000. The two men were considered anarchist. The importance of this event was that their conviction was based on their politics and their ethnicity. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Herbert Hoover took office the year the stock market crashed. Because he was leading the nation when this unfortunate event happened, he was given the blame.
