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1920's

By 16MTerry
  • KDKA in Pittsburgh

    KDKA in Pittsburgh

    A news radio station.
  • 19th Amendment is adopted

    19th Amendment is adopted

    Woman can now vote.
  • Prohabition Begins

    Prohabition Begins

    The banning of alcohol.
  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act

    Allowed oly a certain amout of people from each country to enter the United States per year.
  • Boll Weevil

    Boll Weevil

    Ruined >85% of the US's southern cotton crops .
  • Stock Market begins to rise

    Stock Market begins to rise

    People became more optimistic
  • National Origins act replaces Quota act

    National Origins act replaces Quota act

    renforced quota act
  • Ku Klux Klan has a big march through Washington D.C.

    Ku Klux Klan has a big march through Washington D.C.

  • Scopes Trial takes place

    Scopes Trial takes place

    Denied the bible.
  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Cultural liturature
  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed

    italian immagrants accused of murder that they didn't do.
  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    Publicsised comercial flying
  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president

    Blamed for the derpression