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19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave the right to vote no matter there sex, so know women can vote. It all came down to Tennessee and Harry Burns made the deciding vote. -
Invention Of The Hair Dryer
Before the 1920’s women would use the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner to dry there hair. When the hair dryer was invented it wasn’t perfect, it would overheat very easily. -
Flapper
Flapper is the "new breed" of young women that wore short skirts, listened to jazz, and bobbed their hair. They were known to be smokers and drinkers. Driving a car was also a new thing. -
Car with Combustion
Before the Combustion Engine cars were running off steam engines witch are very expensive. Henry Ford started making cars with Combustion Engines witch made cars rolling off the assembly line even cheaper. -
teapot dome scandal
Teapot Dome scandal is over a oil field on public land in Wyoming. President Harding was in control of the Teapot Dome in Wyoming and elk hills in California. Albert Fall the Secretary of the Interior leased the land illegally and was later caught for it. -
prohibition
Prohibition is the 18th amendment witch bands the sale of making of intoxicating liquors. Alcohol could still be produced for religions and metical purposes. Along with the 18th amendment came bootleggers, rumrunners, and speakeasies; all ways to get around the new law. The Volstead act was put into place to enforce the amendment but it wasn’t successful because regular people were openly breaking the law. -
Sacco And Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti are two Italian immigrants that are known anarchists. They where convicted in show trial and executed. The two men became symbols of oppressive government. -
Invention Of The Traffic Light
William Potts was the inventor of the traffic light. He was a police officer from Michigan. He used red, green, and amber lights. It was first installed in Woodward Michigan. -
Invention Of The Lie Detector
John A. Larson invented the lie detector in 1921. It measures the heartbeats and breathing of a person to check whether the person was lying. If the pulse rate and breathing were high, an alarm would buzz, telling you he is a lying. -
Scopes Trial
The Scopes trail is over the teaching of the theory of evolution. Clarence Darrow was defining the case while William Jennings Bryan against it. Its modernism vs. traditionalism. -
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season, in 1927. This set the season record. His lifetime total of 714 home runs was a was another record. He also hit .342 (average). -
Bread Slicer
Otto Frederick Rowedder invented the machine that could cut and wrap a loaf of bread in 1927. Although this machine was later improved by baker Gustav Papendick. -
First talking movie
Babe Ruth was known as the Home Run King, playing for the New York Yankees. on September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run for the one season. He is known as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. -
Frozen Food
Clarence Birdseye invented frozen food in New York, were he stated his own packing company called Birdseye seafoods. He packed his food in waxed cardboard cartons. This was a huge success and is still today. -
Black Tuesday
Black Thursday is know as the day when the stock market crashed. Prices were going down in amazing rates in just a hour. There wasn’t just one black Thursday the next week the 16 millions shares were sold. This caused people to go broke and homeless. Prices have hit rock bottom.