1920's timelime

By MSpies

  • 19th Amendment

    This allowed women to vote. It made everyone get a chance to chose who they wanted to vote as a presidet and what bills should be pasted.

  • KDKA established in Pittsburgh

    This was the first radio station made. It provided news around the nation quickly and was the fastest way to mass spread news.

  • Prohibition Begins

    This banned the manufaturing and disdributing of alcohol. This lead to many organized mafias and the begining of organized crime in the U.S.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    This limited the number of immigrants allowed to live in our borders. It more then halved the number of immigrants we get every year.

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

    This ruined the profits of many farmers. Cotton was a luxury resource that we sold for a major profit.

  • National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.

    This lowered the 3% cap of the Emergency Quota act to 2%. This limited even more amounts of immigrants from coming into the U.S. borders.

  • Stock market begins to rise

    This rise boosts our economy. Many people now invested into the stocks.

  • Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.

    Scopes trial was when a high school teacher who was charged for violating the butler act of Tennessee. This trial was actually staged to make people more aware of this act.

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

    This was a big sign of Racial Tensions in America. It was also the first large march by the KKK.

  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    This poem was to help support other african american writers. It won best poem of the year in 1926

  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    He flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris nonstop. He won the award for longest nonstop flight.

  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    They were executed for murdering two people during an armed robbery. It is still discussed if they were innocent or guilty.

  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    He was elected 8 months before the stock market collapsed. He tried to improve the economy by promoting volunter work and increasing tariffs but there was no economic growth during his election period.

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