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The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was a law passed by congress that women should have the right to vote. Many women fought to have this right and pushed until they were able to suceed. Congress claimed that "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." -
KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh
KDKA was a radio station created in Pittsburgh by the Westinghouse Electric Company. It was the first radio station and a start of a major technology upgrade. -
The Emergency Quota Act
This act was about Immagration. The United States of America limited the immagration being amitted. They only allowed 3% to be promoted as a American. -
The Crop Thief
The cotton ws growing fine and was a popular plant, but then a new bettle was found and ruined millions of cotton fields. -
The Stocks on the Rise
In this period, extreme optimism and high speculation on the part of the investors helped some common stocks to generate extremely high levels of profit. -
1925 Ku Klux Klan
On September 26th, 1925, the “largest crowd that has ever assembled in the Lynden District,” estimated between 12,000 and 25,000 people, attended a rally of supposedly 750 members of the Ku Klux Klan at the Northwest Washington Fair Grounds.[ -
Langston Hughes
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. He died in his beloved Harlem in 1967, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and author of numerous plays, poems, and novels. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed Italian immigrants and anarchists accused of robbery and murder during a period called the Red Scare. Their trial and execution reflected the decade's fears about threats to the government and prejudices about foreigners -
Herbert Hoover
Hoover's reluctance to employ government resources to address economic problems helped worsen the effects of the Depression.
