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1920's Timeline

By ddhudson13

  • Prohibations Started

    Started riots

  • 19th Amendment

    Womens Voting

  • KDKA in Pittsburgh

    Radio station

  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    The emergency quota act allowed only a certain amount of people from each country to enter the U.S. per year. In other words, it set quotas on immigration into the United States.

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

    Killed the crop that was in the south. Slowed down production.

  • National Origins Act

    New immigration act. More restriction

  • The stock market begins its spectacular rise

    Started to come back with a lower tax

  • KKK March in Washington D.C.

    Was a riot with 35000 members

  • Scopes Trial

    Dayton Tennessee. stopped prohibation. Think about evolution

  • Langston Hughes "The Weary Blues"

    His first book. about blacks

  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    Longest nonstop flight

  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed

    they stole shoes, also they murdered someone

  • Herbert Hoover is Elected into Office