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1920
The ninteenth amendment was ratified by the united states this allowed women to vote and this made america a non sexist country which not many countries were at the time and still aren't today this was a huge step for America, the 1920's was also when prohibition began and America became more rebellious and free, Prohibition started the times of gangsters and alcohol smuggling which is historical in America. -
1921
The Emergency Quota act or AKA the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 Restricted Immigration from America said to protect America's original culture from being influenced by so many other immigrants, but America is said to have really done this to keep the jews from running to our country when Nazi times were coming. -
1922
The Boll Weevil Ruined 85% of the southern America's cotton crops that year and that was huge because cotton made a huge majority of all clothes and clothes and materials, And it generated almost all of the south's crops this killed the economy that year clothes and cloth prices sky Rocketted. -
1924
The Stock Market significantly increased! The economy was amazing! Large pay checks and big prices, this is significant because this was what the American Dream was about working hard and being successful, and this one of the best times to live in, where money was good and America's cultuire was at its best! The national Origins act also was putin to replace the Emergency Quota act. It was just like the Quota act, but it only accepted 2% of immigrants from other countries and and this excluded A -
1925
The KKK Marched through Washington D.C. in huge huge numbers showing how dominant they thought white should be over immigration and how they felt the other non american's were poisoning our country with all of their culture. The Scopes trial also took place this was a fmaous case where a man named John Thomas Scopes was Tried for teaching Evolution in school because America is supposed to be Christian so the fact he exposed kids to something non christian was so frowned apon -
1926
The Weary Blues was published, it was a historically legend of a poem talking about the Harlem Rennisance it was voted the best poem of that year and became famous because it talked about something historical like the Harlem rennisance. -
1927
Two men named Sacco and Vanzetti were executed they were accused of being anarchists and because of the red scare and communism scare this was scary, our government at the time wanted American values of just freedom and peace in their country, but when they brought anarchy and they had names of possible people they executed them wither they were guilty or not because they didn't wanna take the chance of spreading communisim. And Mr. Charles Lindbergh took an airplane and flew all the way across -
1928
Herbet Hoover was Elected President Hoover was a memorible president when the stock market crashed into a depression it was Herbert Hoover who worked his tail off to get the economy back on track and out of this depression. -
1929
The Stock Market Crashed, creating a huge depression everyone owuld know about across the nation and the world. The stock market prices plummited and money was just so hard to come by jobs were scarce and the American way of life was devistated. This is a very significant part of american history that applies to 2013 with our economic crisis.
