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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.
The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
it is the world's first commercial radio station -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
Limits on immigration. The act meant that only people of Northern Europe who had similar cultures to that of America were likely to get in.The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
One of the most valuable crops in the agricultural South, and it was under attack by a seemingly indestructible new beetle known as the boll weevil. An announcement ran in the Chicago Daily Tribune explaining the recent arrival of the boll weevil population to the United States. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
It restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
Interest in the Ku Klux Klan increased as immigrants continued to enter the United States.
With more than five million members, the Klan marched to show its strength. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.
is a poem written by American poet Langston Hughes.The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. It was awarded best poem of the year by the magazine. The poem was published in Hughes' first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues