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First Automobile
Ransome Eli Olds created the Cured Dash Oldsmobile. It sold for $650.00 and was the first gasoline powered car. -
Assembly Line
With Henry Fords determination to build an affordable and small car, he created his own assembly line. With this assembly line he created what he called the Model T. The assembly line definitely helped decrease work hours. -
Invention of the Radio
The radio allowed the people to be entertained more easily and get the news faster. -
Marcus Mosiah Garvey creates Liberty Hall
established in Harlem, New York City as a Cradle of Negro Liberty and dedicated at a mass meeting. -
Boston Police Strike
This was a strike by the Boston police rank, after Police Commissioner Edwin Upton Curtis refused to allow the creation of a police union. The strike, which pulled Boston into civil chaos, stirred up a dramatic shift in traditional labor relations and views on the part of the police, who were unhappy with lower wages and poor working conditions. -
18th Amendment Passed
Along with the Volstead Act which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S. established Prohibition in the United States. -
Volstead Act passed
While it was the 18th Amendment that established Prohibition, it was the Volstead Act that clarified the law. The Volstead Act stated that beer, wine, or other intoxicating alcohol meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume. The Act also stated that owning any item designed to manufacture alcohol was illegal and it set specific fines and jail sentences for violating Prohibition. -
First Palmer Raid
Palmer raids were a series of controversial raids by the United States Department of Justice on suspected socialist citizens and immigrants in the United States. The first Palmer Raid occurned November 7, 1919. -
Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919
This Act made it illegal to exclude women from jobs because of their sex. Women could now become solicitors, barristers and magistrates. -
Band-Aid was Created
Earle Dickson, an employee of Johnson & Johnson, for his wife Josephine Dickson, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking. They protect cuts and scrapes from getting infected. -
Palmer Raids are Done
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Agricultural Mechanization - Tractors
Many farmers useds tractors to harvest plants and crops. The demand for tractors went up, and so did the debts. Rural population was slowly decreasing. -
Woman Suffrage Begins with 19th Amendment passed
Prohibited each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. -
Wall Street Bombing
This event occured at 12:01 p.m., in the Financial District of New York City. Thirty-eight people were killed and 400 injured by the blast. -
National Origins Act
This Act was put into play until the 1960's. It discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. Made it to where Asians couldn't enter the country. -
The Televison was Created
John Baird created the first television with moving characters. -
March on Washington Ku Klux Klan
The KKK marched on Washington and demanded attetion from the country striking fear into people everywhere. -
Ku Klux Klan Parade
The Klan drew 30,000 spectators to a parade through Freeport, with the village police chief, John M. Hartman, leading a procession of 2,000 robed men. -
Scopes Trial
John Thomas Scopes a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested for violating an act of the state which prohibited the teaching of evolution or bible in schools. The jury found John Thomas Stopes guilty and the judge fined him $100 -
Mechanical Cotton Picker was Invented
The mechanical cotton picker is a machine that automates cotton harvesting in a way that reduces harvest time and maximizes productivity. -
Prohibition is Over
21st amendment ratified the 18th amendment.
