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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
The 19th amendment was giving women the right to vote. The Consitution and Prohibition were a way of the government taking more control over the states rights. Prohibition took people rights to manufacture, sell, and transport and type of alcoholic beverages. This lead to rebellion, and soon enough the amendment was repealled. -
KDKA in Pittsburg
KDKA was a radio station licensed in Pittsburg. It was important because it was a way to communicate with vast numbers of people over a large geographic area instantaneously. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
This restricted immagration to the U.S.. It was important because there was an overpopulation and Americans just plain out did not want more immagrants. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
The boll weevil was a bug that ate and infested the cotton crops. Thousands of farmers went into bankrupcy. This disaster contributed to a continued pattern of migration north by African Americans -
National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
This law was a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
He traveled through Africa and Europe by working a variety of odd jobs. He died in his beloved Harlem in 1967, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and author of numerous plays, poems, and novels. This musician is singing about how, even though he's miserable, he's going to put his worries aside. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed for murder with little to no evidence. On the evening of May 21, Charles crossed the coast of France, followed the Seine River to Paris and touched down at Le Bourget Field at 10:22P.M. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Among important Republican constituencies, he had the support of women, progressives, internationalists, the new business elite, and corporate interests.
