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1920's

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  • The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted

    Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. Womens rights!!!
  • KDKA in Pittsburge

    KDKA in Pittsburge

    The first commercial radio station. Broadcast of the Hard-cox presidential election.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    Emergency Quota Act

    Also know as the Emergency Immigration Act.It restricted immigration into the United States.
  • The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.

    The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.

    The boll weevil was a beetle. It caused mass destruction in cotton crops as it fed on and laid its eggs in the fruiting structures of the cotton plant.
  • The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.

    The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.

    Provided that for three years the formula would change from 3% to 2% and the basis for the calculation would be the census of 1890 instead of that of 1910.
  • Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.

    Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.

    The estimated people there was around 12,000 and 25,000 people. Largest crowed that has ever been assembled in the Lynden District.
  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    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. Announced his poetic philosophy of speaking not only for himself, but also the whole African American population.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
    Later they were found not guilty.
  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    His predecessors’ policies undoubtedly contributed to the crisis of the Great Depression which lasted over a decade. Hoover bore much of the blame in the minds of the American people.