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Invention of the Car
Th einvention of the car was one of the most significant inventions. The automobile drastically changed American lives for the better. -
Invention of the Radio
The inventio of the radio all started with the discovery of "radio waves" - electromagnetic waves that have the capacity to transmit music, speech, pictures and other data invisibly through the air. -
Invention of the Telephone
The telephone is a wire-based electrical system, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph -
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The great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from 1910 to 1930. African Americans migrated to escape racism and to seek jobs in industrial cities. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act restricted immigration into its country; the act imposed a quota that limited the number of immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country who lived in the United States, based on the United States Census figures from 1910. -
Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. -
Invention of the Televison
Television is the most widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that are either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and investors suffered $5 billion in losses. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States of America, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
1933 (The State of the Economy)
In 1933 the aftermath of the Great Depression 12 million people were out of work, 12,000 people were being unemployed every day, 20,000 companies had gone bankrupt, 1616 banks had gone bankrupt, 1 farmer out of ever 20 was being evicted, 23,000 people committed suicide in one year - the highest ever. -
Franklin D Roosevelt Inauguration
Wehn Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated he addressed the nation by radio and announced his plans for a New Deal. In which was his plans to rebuild society. -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandated nationwide Prohibition. -
Hoover Dam built
The Hoover Dam was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Having this Dam built gave jobs to those unemployed and gave enerygy to the region. -
Invention of the Computer
Many inventors contributed to the history of computers and that a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention. -
Invention of the Frisbee
The Frisbie Baking Company (1871-1958) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, made pies that were sold to many New England colleges. Hungry college students soon discovered that the empty pie tins could be tossed and caught, providing endless hours of game and sport. -
GI Bill of Rights
The GI Bill of Rights was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It also provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. -
Invention of the Internet
The Internet got its start in the United States more than 50 years ago as a government weapon in the Cold War. For years, scientists and researchers used it to communicate and share data with one another. Today, we use the Internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be impossible to imagine life without it.