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KDKA in Pittsburg
KDKA is a radio station, Leo Rosenberg, was the frist radio station announcer. Radio stations helped news get announced to all around so people could know wha was going on in the world. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
The 19th admendement was where both females and males where able to vote. Thefor they had to open it up for both females and males to run for office. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
May 19, 1921, restricted immigration into its country; the act imposed a quota that limited the number of immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country who lived in the United States. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
Cotton it one of the most valuable crops in the South. And it was under attack by a seemingly indestructible new beetle known as the boll weevil. On September 27, 1895, an announcement ran in Chicago explaining the recent arrival of the boll weevil population to the United States. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
With the Stock Market increasing this will lead to something. This will lead to the Great Depression. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
Little evidence of Klan activity in these counties exists prior to July 4, 1923, when local Klansmen burned a cross on the top of Sehome Hill in Bellingham and apparently got into a fist-fight with a few angry residents who went to confront them -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
The Weary Blues was a poem published in 1926. 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. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his guard. The murderers, who were described as two Italian men, escaped with more than $15,000. Pople believe thsat is was Sacco and Vanzetti and people wmet crazy. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression.
