timeline of the 1920s

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

    prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of gender or race

  • KDKA in Pitsberg

    KDKA is the world's first commercial radio station founded in pitsberg

  • Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act

    he Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act

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

    Cotton: it was one of the most valuable crops in the agricultural South, and it was under attack by a seemingly indestructible new beetle known as the boll weevil. On September 27, 1922, an announcement ran in the Chicago Daily Tribune explaining the recent arrival of the boll weevil population to the United States.

  • The stock market begins its spectacular rise.National Origins Act replaces Emergency Quota Act

    It restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and practically excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entry into the United States

  • the stock market begins its spectacular rise

    this time was full of optamism and people started to think that this stock market prosperity is permanent and has the power to pull out the economic crises.