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This amendment prohibits any U.S. citizen from being denied from the right to vote on the basis of sex. This amendment allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting.
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KDKA is a radio station in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania. The creator of the station was Westinghouse Electric Corporation. This was the world's first commercial radio station.
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Also known as the Emergency Immigration Act. This restricted immigration into the U.S. The origional intention was for temporary legislation
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The boll Weevil is a beetle that feeds off of cotton buds and flowers. This bug migrated from Mexico to the U.S., Infesting all of the south's cotton growing areas.
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Before the crash of the stock market, the stock market was going rising up. In the 1920s the U.S. was focused on selling more amd more goods to the people, this created the high demand and the market was higher than ever.
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The Ku KLux Klan is said to have been the strongest and longest lasting Ku KLux KLan prsence in the 1920s. They organized particularly around the town of bellingham.
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HUghes was only 24 when the book was created and published to the public. The poems inside were origionally meant to be music oriented. That is why the poems seem to have speed to them at times.
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Convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Shoe Factory. Writers, artists, and academics pleaded that they get a new trial.
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Hoover was the republican candidate that was elected into office. Democrat, Al Smith, was up against Hoover in the election.