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Prohibition
Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This took ppace from 1920 to 1933. -
KDKA in Pittsburgh
KDKA is a radio station that is licensed in Pttsburgh. Created by the Westinghouse Electric Corrporation on November 2, 1920. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act is also known as the Energency Immigration Act. This act restricted immigration into the United States. -
Stockmarket increase
The economy began to grow due to the number of companies that were increasing. Many people began to recive more incoome, they spent more money and stock prices began to rise. -
KKK stages a huge march through Washington D.C
More than 40,000 members of the Klu Klux Klan marched the strrets on Washington D.C on August 8, 1924. This march brought light to racism in the 20th century for the first time. -
Langston Hughes publishes "The Weary Blues"
"The Weary Blues" is written by American poet LAngston Hughes.This oem has been creted to be one of the first poems to combine music and poetry. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes trial is formally known as The State of Tennesse V. John Thomas Scopes. John Thomas Scopes who was a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
They were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a shoe factory. They were conficted because of their ethnicty. -
Boll Weevil
A boll weevil is a beetle which feeds on cotton buds and flowers. It migrated to the Ubited States in the 19th century and had infested all U.S cotton-growing areas by the 1920s. -
adoption of the 19th admendment
The 19th admendment “prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex”, which gave women their voice in government.
