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KDKA in Pittsburgh
The first commercial radio station was kdka in Pittsburgh, It was broadcasted from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation On the Radio they talked about the news and sports. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The 19th amendment guarentees all women the right to vote. It was passed in 1919, but it was ratified in 1920. -
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 The dry period lasted fourteen years and led to the first and only time an Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was repealed. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
The Emergancy Quota act was an act to limit how many immigrants that come to the United States. -
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. -
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, -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
This act replaced the Emergency Quota Act. It restricted the number of immigrants to 150,000 people amd a limit of 2% of each nationality already in the US, except for Asians who were not allowed in the US at all. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
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, and brought light to rasism in the 20th century for the first time. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The Scope Trial was a legal case in America during 1925 where a 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. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
It was a poem first published in the Urban League magazine, One of the poem's themes is the importance of music in everyday life. -
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. -
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. -
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.
