1920's

By Elizabeth Sousa

  • Beginning of Prohibition

    Prohibition begins, the 18th amendment was beginning to be put into action, with the banning of the selling, consumption, and creation of alcoholic beverages.

  • 19 Amendment

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted, which was women's rights and their suffrage was beginning to be looked at.

  • KDKA

    KDKA in Pittsburgh was the world’s first radio station, and it’s first official broadcast was on August 20, 1920.

  • Emergency Immigration Act

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency immigration act. This was responsible for reducing the amount of immigrants from other countries, especially Europe, and it started a use for a quota and keeping track of the immigrants coming in.

  • Boll Weevil Infestation

    The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop. These pests, moving 60 miles a year, came from Texas and Mexico regions and ended up in Virginia in 1922. They devastated the farmers by ruining all of their crops, as so many of them tried to prevent them.

  • Stock Market Rise

    The stock market begins its spectacular rise, in this period, there was high optimism, and many people were spending more money, due to the amount of money that was being made.

  • National Orgins Act

    National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act, which prohibited immigration based upon the already proportions of the population. It was soon replaced with Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee. A teacher, Thomas Scopes, was tried against the idea that he was teaching evolution in his classroom, which went against Tennessee's Butler Act, which forbade any teaching of evolution in school. HE was found guilty, but the verdict was overturned due to technicalities.

  • March on Washington

    Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C. They were promoting Anti Catholicism and Anti Semitism, as well as their already known racial problems

  • Publication of "Weary Blues"

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.” This was a poem that described a singer who is telling a story of how they are miserable, but putting it aside for their sake of happiness, and it was published first in Urban League Magazine. Langston Hughes was a popular and leading writer in the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. They were evicted for murdering two men, a paymaster and his guard, during an armed robbery. They were Italian born anarchists and they were soon to be look upon as falsely and unfairly treated.They were evicted in 1921, but protests in their name sprung out in North American cities, and also Europe.

  • Charles Lindenburgh Flight

    Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic. First to fly from New York to Paris, for a $25,000 prize.

  • Herbert Hoover is President

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president. He was the 31 president of the United States, and was mostly known as being the head of the Food and Drug Administrstion.