time line of 1920s

By 18slower
  • The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begins.

    prohibited the sale transportation and making of any alcoholic bevrages so people did it illeagly and the law enforcement had a hard time inforcing the laws.
  • kdka in pittsburg

    kdka in pittsburg

    The kdka was the first radio broadcast sytem in the USA
    headquarters were in pittsbug
  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act

    Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act

    was made to temperarly limet the number of immagrents based on qoutes meseured by the country they were from
  • The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop

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

    boll weavel ruins more than 85 percent of the cotton crop the cotten is a very big industry and the boll weaveal sent dome people bankrupt
  • stock market rise

    stock market rise

    the stock market begins to rise but the rest of the economy is still in a recesion
  • scopes trial

    scopes trial

    known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes legal case of a tennese teacher violating the butler act by teaching the human evolution therory.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    the Ku Klux Klan witch once had over 3 million members marches on washington to attreact national attention.
  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    a rebirth movement of African Americans in the arts during the 1920s. Hughes wrote about the world around him, giving a voice to African Americans during a time of segregation.
  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.

    Working as a mail pilot a year earlier he heard of the $25,000 prize for the first flight between New York and Paris. Backed by a group of St. Louis businessmen, Lindbergh supervised the building of his special plane and set out after the prize.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.

    The murderers, who were described as two Italian men, escaped with more than $15,000. After going to a garage to claim a car that police said was connected with the crime, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and made false statements upon their arrest, neither had a previous criminal record. On July 14, 1921, they were convicted and sentenced to die.