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Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She was born September 14, 1879, and died in 1966 on September 6. Her work eventually founded the American Birth Control League and she brought effective birth control into the American mainstream.
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The creation of Automobiles happened in 1886 and it was the “birth year” of the modern car. It was when german inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz patent motor wagon. After these cars became widely available. On December 1, 1913, Henry Ford created the first-ever assembly line for the mass production of the automobile.
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Radio transmitters and receivers were first invented around 1895-1896. It was an Italian man named Guglielmo Marconi, and the radio started being used around the 1900s. It was very important because people didn’t have to be there in order to watch sports, news, or music. They were then able to listen to it when they were in their cars.
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The red scare was hysteria about a threat said by the communists in the U.S. during the Cold war. The US government raided the headquarters of radical organizations. The raids were a group that targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish Immigrants. Sacco and Vanzetti were 2 Italian immigrant anarchists. They were both convicted of murdering a quad and a playmate on the 15th of April, 1920.
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Warren G. Harding was elected in 1920, he defeated James Cox and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was not liked, but he was republican and died in 1923.
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From 1920-1933, the transportation, importation, production, and sale of alcohol were banned. Both the federal and local government enforced it and assigned it to the internal revenue service.
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Calvin Coolidge became president from 1924-28. He was the “business of America is Business” and he presides over a period of prosperity and growth. Herbert Hoover was elected in 1924 and was a former Commerce Secretary and Engineer. He created the saying “the best days are yet to come”.
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Charles was an American aviator. He helped to raise international fame by becoming the first person to fly solo and nonstop over the ocean in a monoplane. This happened in 1927 and he was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1902.
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The stock market crashed in 1929, and many people lost their jobs and a ton of money. The gold standard also had a big impact on the great depression because the US experienced declining output of gold and they lost a lot of money. There was also a big drought that lasted throughout the 1930s and many faced unemployment, many lost their homes, and almost half of the American banks closed.
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Herbert Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer. From 1929 to 1933, he was the president of the US. Also, he was a part of the republican party and held office during the great depression.
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This happened when stock prices collapsed on October 24, 1929. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 24.8%, and it was one of the worst declines in the history of the US. Wall Street markets lost all their confidence and this also led to the great depression.
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F.D. Roosevelt was president from March 4, 1933- April 12, 1945. He wanted to increase employment and knew that there was a need for a support system for the poor. For these reasons, he increased the size of the government to fix all these problems.
