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KDKA in Pittsburgh
This was the first the first commerical radio broadcast. It was voiced by Leo Rosenberg. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. Achieving this task for women was a difficult struggle but they fought for their right to be trreated equal. -
Emergency Quota act
This was an immagration restrivtion act. This act put a restrction on how many immagrants were aloud in the United States based on nationality and previous influx years. -
boll weevil
The boll weevil is a beatle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers. This bug migrated into the US from mexico, leading to an infestation. -
National origins acts
This act replaced the Emergency quota act. This act restricted Southern and eastern Europeans entry into the US. -
stock market rise.
This was a time when the stock market began to dramaticly rise. Stocks began to have a great increase in profit. -
KKK march
The Ku Klux Klan staged a large march in DC. They wanted to show their ever growing number of members to the world. -
Scopes trial
This was a trail in which a sub teacher (john scopes) was covicted and fined for teaching evolution in a Tennessee school. -
The weary blues
This was a poeam written by Langston Hughes, which spoke of an evening of listening to the blues in Harlem. -
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Alantic ocean. Other piolets had crossed the Alantic before, but no one had done is alone, or without stopping. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
Sacco and Vanzetti were two immagrant radicals, that were convicted of murder. Many people say the case was very bias, and the men were treated different because they were immagrants. -
Herbert Hoover
Hoover was the 31st president of the United States.
