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telephone
the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He was 29 years old. The invention was patented on January 30, 1877 by Bell. -
Car
Karl Friedrich Benz was the first to create the automobile. Gasoline automobile powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, Four cycle, engine and chassis form a single unit. He had lived from 1844 - 1929. -
Radio
In 1895 Alexander Stepanovich Popov built his first radio receiver, which contained a coherer. it was presented to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7, 1895. A depiction of Popov's lightning detector was printed in the Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society the same year. -
The Great Migration
The exact date wasn't given; only the year. This event was signifigant because the african americans didn't want to get lynched and racially bat and murdered. they wanted to be treated equal. Therfore they migrated to the North to find better lives. -
18th amendment
This amendment established Prohibition in the United States. The separate Volstead Act set down rules of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded. The police, courts and prisons were overwhelmed with new cases; organized crime increased in power, and corruption extended among law enforcement officials. -
19th amendment
This amendment prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. The amendment was the peak of the women's suffrage movement, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. The amendment was the conclusion of the women's suffrage movement. -
television
The TV was invented around 1920. A standard television set comprises multiple internal electronic circuits. Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with sound. -
Emergency Quota Act
This is also known as the Emergency Immigration Act if 1921. This act restricted immigration into the Untied States. Although intended as temporary legislation, the Act "proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy". -
Immigration Act of 1924
This was a United States federal law that limited the annual 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. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s, as well as prohibiting the immigration of East Asians and Asian Indians. -
Black Thursday
This is the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 at the New York Stock Exchange. "Black Tuesday" was the following week on October 29, 1929. -
Black Tuesday
This was the day the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This means that the prices for stock were too high, far higher than they were really worth. People who had unwisely borrowed money to buy high-priced stocks and then went bankrupt. -
1933 State of Economy
Historians distinguish a "First New Deal" in 1933. The New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Franklin D. Rosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms. FDR's persistent optimism and activism contributed to a renewal of the national spirit. -
21st Amendment
Senator John Blaine of Wisconsin submitted a resolution to Congress proposing the submission to the states of the Twenty-First Amendment. Less than a year after the Twenty-First Amendment was submitted for ratification, the necessary thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment at 5:32 PM on December 5, 1933. At 7:00 PM, President Roosevelt signed the proclamation ending Prohibition. -
Hoover Dam Constructed
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. -
GI Bill of Rights
This was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans. This also provided as one year of unemployment compensation. Also, many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. -
Frisbee invented
The Frisbee, which is also generically called a flying disc, is one of the most popular outdoor social games that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. After World War II he created a flying disc called the Whirlo-Way which was later renamed the Flyin-Saucer. Morrison made changes to the design in 1955 and called the new model the Pluto Platter. Two years later, in 1957, he sold the rights to the toy to the company Wham-O who renamed it the Frisbee. -
Internet
The USSR launches the first satellite, Sputnik. To compete against the USSR's success at launching the first satellite, the United States Department of Defense creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. -
Computer
In 1981 the IBM PC was invented. Later that year Microsoft was invented. There are many different definitions of the "computer" and different people made different types of computers. Its hard to say who actually made the first computer but in my opinion it was the first PC.