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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins
It is the eighteenth admendmint to the constituion become a period known as prohibition which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages it was illegal to sell. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
It is the worlds first commercial radio station. It operates on a clear channel and broadcasts has been a feature of its programming has been a central feature from programming before. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
The objective of this act was to temporarily limit the numbers of immigrants to the United States. Imposing quotas based on country of birth. Annual allowable quotas for each country of origin were calculated at 3 percent of the total number of foreign-born people -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
Cotton is one of the most valuable crops there is in the agricultural South. The species moved up from Mexico into certain areas of Texas and was wreaking havoc on cotton crops. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
Time was full of optimism and people started to think that this stock market prosperity is permanent and has the power to pull out the economic crises. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
this category contains people whose past or present membership in the Klu Klux Klan. And also is self-proclamied. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
This was the first book he ever published. The was about poems to progress at a self-assured and lyrical pace. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
The fact that is was a long jorney. and he wanted to do way more than what he planed. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
hoover was widley known for his alectio, potential presidential candidates long before the campaign of 1928.
