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Phohibition begis.
The 18th amendment was taken into place that outlawed alcoholic beverages to be sold, consumed, imported or exported. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
A radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
Restricted immigration into the United States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy" -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
It was one of the most valuable crops in the agricultural South, and it was under attack by a seemingly indestructible new beetle known as the boll weevil. The species moved up from Mexico into certain areas of Texas and was wreaking havoc on cotton crops. The U.S. Agricultural Department considered the cotton boll weevil to be one of the most harmful pests to have existed in the United States. -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
It restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.
This 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. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
An American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
While other Washington State chapters may have had more members at their peak, probably the strongest and longest lasting Ku Klux Klan presence in the 1920s and 1930s was in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, organized in particular around the towns of Bellingham and Mount Vernon. While many Klan chapters faded in the late 1920s, according to one local resident, the chapters in these counties “never did disband.” -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
The poems progress at a self-assured and lyrical pace—partly because Hughes expected them to be performed with musical accompaniment in the famous Harlem clubs of that era. -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airborne and barely cleared the telephone wires at the field's edge. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
The state Supreme Court refused to upset the verdict, and Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller denied the men clemency. In the days leading up to the execution, protests were held in cities around the world, and bombs were set off in New York City and Philadelphia. On August 23, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term. Democrat Al Smith was pitted against Hoover.
