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Prohibition begins. The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
The eighteenth amendment goes into affect and the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol is banned. Also the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified and all women are given the right to vote. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
KDKA, a radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, was made. It was the world's first commercial radio station and was on the AM radio. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act was passed by the US Congress, which restricted immigration into the United States. It reduced the amoount of immigrants from any country each year to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the US according to the census of 1910. -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop
Cotton was a valuable crop in the South and was in attacked by a new beatle called the boll weevil. The loss of the cotton crop put thousands of southern farmers into bankruptcy the disaster contributed to a continued pattern of migration north by African Americans -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise. National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act.
Investors started buying stocks on margin and many initially became wealthy, but were unable to pay debts when the stock prices fell in 1929. Congress changed immigration restriction by establishing national quotas, but Asians and people from southern and eastern Europe were subject to discrimination. -
Ku Klux Klan members stage major march through D.C. Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
As immigrants continued entering the US, interest in the Ku Klux Klan increased and when they had more than five million members, the Klan marched to show its strength and political clout. A biology teacher was taken to court and fined for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his class. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues”
“The Weary Blues” showed African-American's perspective through poetry. It became an important example of creativity associated with the Harlem Renaissance. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
Italian immigrants accused of robbery and murder during a period called the Red Scare whos trial and execution reflected the decade's fears about threats to the government and prejudices about foreigners. Completed the first solo transatlantic flight in 33 1/2 hours. -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
Hoover's reluctance to employ government resources to address economic problems helped worsen the effects of the Depression.