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The 18th amendment made the production and use of alcohol illegal. This was quickly debated and was taken out with the 21st amendment.
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The 19th amendment gave any American of legal age the right to vote no matter their gender. This allowed women to vote instead of just the men.
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KDKA was name the first commericially broadcasted radio station. It still runs under the company called CBS and is broadcasted through the transmitter in allsion park as a news talk network.
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This act's only purpose was to limit immigration to the United States.
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In 1922 the Boll Weevils' had migrated up to the U.S. and started to infect all of the cotton plans devistating harvest.
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Throughout 1924 the Stock market rapisly rose. This caused a few later years to bring tax rates down quite a large amount.
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The National Origins act replaces the Emergency Quota act by greatly reducing the immigration cap. The Emergency Quota had it set at a 3% rate but the Origins act was able to reduce it back down to 2%.
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John scopes is trialed for possibly abusing tenesse's butler act.
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30-35k KKK members dressed in white marched down the pennslyvannia avenu.
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This is a poem made by langston hughes. This poem was initially in a newspaper and ended up getting a best peopm of the year reward. This peom doesn't have an exact written date but it was narrowed down to 1926.
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Sacco and Vanzetti were two italian shoemaker that were executed for amurder with limited information. These immigrants were harshly killed mainly for disagreeing with the government.
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Charles lindenburg was the first man to fly solo acrost the atlantic ocean. This was an amazing achivement back then.
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Herbert Hoover was the president that was eleced right before the depression came in. For this reason Hoover is sill blamed for the financial problems that occured in that time.
