Timeline

1920's

By 18DAbfall
  • The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.

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

    Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. This lead up to woman suffrage.
  • KDKA in Pittsburgh

    KDKA in Pittsburgh

    The KDKA was the first commercially licensed station. The KDKA was a radio station the first one ever made. The radio was a big hit it could dliver anything like news, weather.
  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921. It prevented imagrents from comeing over.
  • 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.

    Cotton it was one of the most valuable crops in the agricultural South.Cotton bolls, their only known habitat, and ruin cotton crops in Mexico and Texas,Around 90 percent of the cotton crop was damaged due to the boll weevil.
  • 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.

    This time was full of optimism and people started to think that this stock market prosperity is permanent and has the power to pull out the economic crises.
  • Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.

    Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.

  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    The weary blues was basically music in poems
  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    Was a 25 year old US air mail pilot
  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), America’s 31st president, took office in 1929, the year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression