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KDKA in Pittssburgh
The kdka started out as a radio company and went to television. they gave out the first comercial broadcast. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
denied all citizens the right to not be able to vote. especially women. -
Congress enacts Emergency Quota Act.
kept immagrants out. the immagrants werent allowed in the us due to its new policies -
The boll weevil ruins more than 85 percent of the South’s cotton crop.
these bugs were responsible for killing 85% of the southern crops. they were seemingly indestructable. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.
people had lots of money. the economy went sky rocketing untill the great depression -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
KKK were a terrorist group who tergeted races other than their own. Ex of race; blacks -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.”
it was about how Hughes began to address the preoccupations that carried through his later work. He announced his poetic philosophy of speaking not only for himself, but also the whole African American population. The book is split into seven thematic sections: The Weary Blues, Dream Variations, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, A Black Pierrot, Water Front Streets, Shadows in the Sun, and Our Land. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
two itallian men were caught stealing 15,000 money. They were then exicuted -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
he was elected in 1928. In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s