Timeline of the 1920s

By 18jpeak

  • 19th Amendment

    Tjis was the amendment for the fight of women suffrage

  • KDKA In Pittsburgh

    The Pittsburgh first aired on this date and became the first one to air.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    Tjis act was how we limited immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually to 3%

  • Boll Weevil

    When the South was growing more cotton in 1922 than in 1892 but 85% of those crops were damaged because of the boll weevil.

  • The stock market begins its spectacular rise

    The stock market goes on a mind blowing rise in 1924

  • Ku Klux Klan

    They marched to Washington D.C when local Klansmen burned a cross on the top of Sehome Hill in Bellingham.

  • Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.

    He was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher

  • Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”

    Tjis was his first book published

  • Sacco and Vanzetti are executed

    They were accused of robbing a bank and the were killed in the chair in 1927

  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

    He was the first man to ever cross the Alantic by plane.

  • Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.

    He was the 30th president when he won the election.