History7

The Roaring Twenties

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  • Prohabition Begins

    Prohabition Begins

    Prohabition was the 18th Amendment and was radified in 1919 but didn't take effect until 1920. Prohabition is the ban on alcohol.
  • 19th Amendment is Ratified

    19th Amendment is Ratified

    Women are allowed to vote. Brought to be by the Suffrage movement.
  • KDKA in Pittsburg

    KDKA in Pittsburg

    A radio station in Pennslyannia. First commercially licensed station.
  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.

    This act restricted immigration into the US. Allows only 3% of people from one country a year.
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    The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.

    This was a beetle that infest the south and ruined 85% of crops
  • Stock Market begins spectacular rise

    Stock Market begins spectacular rise

    stock market rise attributed to higer wages and a better economy
  • National Origins Act replaces Emergancy Quota Act

    National Origins Act replaces Emergancy Quota Act

    More restirictions on immigration. Aimed twoards the eastern European immigrants.
  • Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C

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

    750 KKK members march through washington DC. 160 join klan
  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.” A book mainly of poetry.
  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    Charles Linbergh flies the spirit of st. louis from Long Island to Paris. Proving it could be done and popularizing flight as a way of transportation
  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Two italian immigrants falsely charged and executed for murder and burgulary
  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    Elected at a time of economic sucess. Blameed for depression because he was the president at the time.