1901-1930

By Amayapelagio

  • Discover oil in Texas

  • Mckinley assassinated

  • First Rose bowl

  • Cuba gains independence from the United States.

  • The first cross-country automobile trip in the United States

  • Wrigth Brother's First Flight

  • San Francisco earthquake occurs, estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale.

  • The first transcontinental airline flight

  • first moving assembly line

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson conduct the first telephone conversation

  • US enters WWI

  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

  • Period: to

    Roaring Twenties

    Period of economic growth from 1920-1929. More people lived in cities than farms, became a consumer's society. The nation's wealth more than doubled in this time period.

  • Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage

  • All Indians are designated citizens by legislation

  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Stock Market Crash