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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
prohibited the sale transportation and making of any alcoholic bevrages so people did it illeagly and the law enforcement had a hard time inforcing the laws. -
kdka in pittsburg
The kdka was the first radio broadcast sytem in the USA
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Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
was made to temperarly limet the number of immagrents based on qoutes meseured by the country they were from -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
boll weavel ruins more than 85 percent of the cotton crop the cotten is a very big industry and the boll weaveal sent dome people bankrupt -
stock market rise
the stock market begins to rise but the rest of the economy is still in a recesion -
scopes trial
known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes legal case of a tennese teacher violating the butler act by teaching the human evolution therory. -
Ku Klux Klan
the Ku Klux Klan witch once had over 3 million members marches on washington to attreact national attention. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
a rebirth movement of African Americans in the arts during the 1920s. Hughes wrote about the world around him, giving a voice to African Americans during a time of segregation. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
Working as a mail pilot a year earlier he heard of the $25,000 prize for the first flight between New York and Paris. Backed by a group of St. Louis businessmen, Lindbergh supervised the building of his special plane and set out after the prize. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
The murderers, who were described as two Italian men, escaped with more than $15,000. After going to a garage to claim a car that police said was connected with the crime, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and made false statements upon their arrest, neither had a previous criminal record. On July 14, 1921, they were convicted and sentenced to die.
