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The 19th amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
It was the first ever commercial radio station. It was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaina. -
Immigration Act of 1921
Federal legislation limitimg the immigration of aliens to the United Sates. -
Boll weevil
The boll weevil is a bug that eats and ruines all of the crops. These bugs would ruin all of the farmers crop leaving them with nothing. -
Stock Market
In this period, extreme optimism and high speculation on the part of the investors helped some common stocks to generate exremly high levels of profits. It also had some of it's low times. -
Ku Klux Klan
Was a group of people who shared the opinion of stuff liike anti-cathlicism and anti-Septimism. They used violence to get the message through to other people. -
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas and Illinois. Before publishing his first book, The Weary Blues, he lived in Mexico, New York, and traveled through Africa and Europe by working a variety of odd jobs. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
They were charged with a crime and were executed. Later on people found out they were not guilty and have been killed for no reason. -
Herbert Hoover
each candidate was a newcomer to the presidential race, each presented in his person and in his record appeals of unknown potency to widely distributed elements in the population. However, each candidate faced serious discontent within his party membership, and neither had the wholehearted support of the party organization.
