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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted.Prohibition begINS
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Prohibition begins.
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933. It was promoted by "dry" crusaders movement, led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. -
KDKA
KDKA is a radio station licensed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920, it is the world's first commercial radio station, a distinction that has also been challenged by other stations, although it has claimed to be the "world's first commercially licensed radio station": -
Emergency Quota Act
The 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 (May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the United States. -
Boll Weevil ruins more than 85% of the souths cotton
A Boll Weevil is a beetle that feasts on cotton buds and flowers. Migrating from Mexico in 1922 the Boll Weevil destroyed more than 85% of the South's cotton crops.This devastated many southern jobs and hurt the economy. -
National Origins act replaces Quota Act
The National Origins Formula was an American system of immigration quotas, between 1921 and 1965, which restricted immigration on the basis of existing proportions of the population. The goal was to maintain the existing ethnic composition of the United States. It had the effect of giving low quotas to Eastern and Southern Europe. -
The stock market begins its spectacular rise.
This time was full of optimism and people started to think that this stock market prosperity is permanent and has the power to pull out the economic crises. -
Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Ku Klux Klan members stage a major march through Washington, D.C.
Interest in the Ku Klux Klan increased as immigrants continued to enter the United States.
With more than five million members, the Klan marched to show its strength. -
Langston Hughes publishes “The Weary Blues.
"The Weary Blues" is a poem written by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925 "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine, Opportunity. It was awarded best poem of the year by the magazine. The poem was published in Hughes' first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues -
Herbert Hoover is elected U.S. president.
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term. Democrat Al Smith was pitted against Hoover. Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the campaign of 1928, and both were generally regarded as outstanding leaders quite apart from the -
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim,[1] Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian-born anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States in 1920.
