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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
This made alcohol illegel to sell trandsport or even manufactor. Crime rates soared under Prohibition as gangsters. Al Capone became rich from a profitable often violent black market for alcohol -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
A radio station in Pittsburgh. It was crated by Westinghouse Electic Corporation in 1920. This was the worlds first commerical radio station. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
restricked immigrantrs into the United States. 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.
one of the most valuable crops in the south, It came up from Mexico into Texas. 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 -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise
The stock market begins its spectacular rise. Bears little relation to the rest of the economy. -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
Also know as the immigration act, . The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the United States. It had the effect of giving low quotas to Eastern and Southern Europe. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher. copes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
with its long history of violence, is the most infamous and oldest of American hate groups. They attacked Jews and Blacks ,immigrants, gays and lesbians.
