American Folk Music 1910-1940

By Breeannakaz
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    Music

    Ragtime and jazz were starting to really take off. WC Handy was a big deal at the time (ST Louis Blues)
    DIxieland was also becoming bigger and bans were forming to play it.
    The thing with the first jazz music, many of the lyric’d songs, took folk songs and played them with more jazzy music instead of traditional sounds. They did the same with work songs, like Swing low sweet chariot, and when the saints go marchin in.
    18th amendment ratified prohibiting alcohol
    World war 1 ends
    Seattle Stri
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    Songs

    A tisket a tasket Ella fitzgerald 1 of her first hits
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJry0vhHj4 Bebop Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BB1pci8_o Delta Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkRjfZLFlD0&list=PLE87dX-FvskIfm5Ql_hkt9moySIXqUc1r Leadbelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-t9YlYa_S8 St louis blues WC Handy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpp75gQ-T6Y

  • The Writght Brothers take flight

    The only flight taken together by Wilbur and Orville Wright occurs at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio. Later that same year, on November 7, the first flight to carry freight would depart from Huffman and deliver its cargo to Columbus, Ohio

  • Manhattan Sweatshop Fire

  • The law establishing the number of United States representatives at 435 is passed

    The law establishing the number of United States representatives at 435 is passed. It would go into effect in 1913 after the 1912 elections.

  • Sinking of the Titanic

  • Mount Katmai erupts

    Mount Katmai in southwest Alaska erupts in one of the largest recorded volcanic expulsions in the history of the world. It was designated Katmai National Monument in 1918 as protection against future eruptions.

  • The United States Marines are sent to action in Nicaragua

    The United States Marines are sent to action in Nicaragua due to its default on loans to the United States and its European allies.

  • The construction of the Panama Canal comes to a close

    The construction of the Panama Canal comes to a close when President Woodrow Wilson begins the explosion of the Gamboa Dike.

  • Ford Motor Company

    The first moving assembly line is introduced and adopted for mass production by the Ford Motor Company, allowing automobile construction time to decrease by almost 10 hours per vehicle

  • Babe Ruth makes his major league debut.

  • President Woodrow Wilson announces that the United States will stay officially neutral in the European conflict that would become World War I.

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson conduct the first telephone conversation between New York and San Francisco.

  • The British ship Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat submarine

    The British ship Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat submarine, causing 128 American passengers to be lost. Germany, although it warned of the pending crises to passengers, issued an apology to the United States and promised payments.

  • Woodrow Wilson won a second term as President

    Woodrow Wilson won a second term as President with his election in the Electoral College, 277 to 254 over Republican candidate Charles E. Hughes.

  • The United States government cuts diplomatic ties with Germany.

  • President Wilson declares war on Germany

    Four days after receiving the request from President Woodrow Wilson, the United States Congress declares war on Germany and join the allies in World War I.

  • The first troops from the United States arrive in Europe to assist European allies in World War I.

  • The 18th Amendment, advocating prohibition of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States

    The 18th Amendment, advocating prohibition of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States, is sent to the states for passage by the United States Congress.

  • Time zones are officially established by an act of the United States Congress with daylight savings time to go into effect on March 31.

  • Airmail service is begun by the United States Post Office Department with regular service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.

  • By the middle of 1918, the United States military forces had over one million troops in Europe fighting in World War I.

  • The influenza epidemic Spanish flu spans the globe, killing over twenty million worldwide and five hundred and forty-eight thousand people in the United States.

  • Hostilities in World War I begin to end

    Hostilities in World War I begin to end with the Austria-Hungary alliance for armistice with the allies on November 3. Armistice Day with Germany occurs when the Allies and the German nation sign an agreement in Compiegne, France. Woodrow Wilson would become the first U.S. President to travel to Europe while in office when he sails to attend the Paris Peace Conference on December 4.

  • Nevada becoming the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibition becomes the law of the land

    With the state of Nevada becoming the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibition becomes the law of the land. It would remain illegal to consume and sell alcoholic beverages in the United States until passage of the 21st Amendment, repealing the 18th, on December 5, 1933.

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

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    Music

    The Grand Ole Opry opened in this decade, many country, bluegrass and folk bands still perform there today. Blind Lemon Jefferson responsible for the surge of popularity of blues western in the 20’s. Charlie Patton Son House popularized delta blues.

  • The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League.

  • Women are given the right to vote

    Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage. Also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, in recognition of her important campaign to win the right to vote.

  • A landslide victory for Warren G

    A landslide victory for Warren G. Harding in both the Electoral College and popular vote returns the Republican Party to the White House. Harding gained over 16 million popular votes to Democratic candidate James M. Cox's 9 million and won the Electoral contest with a 404 to 127 landslide. This was the first election in which women had the right to vote.

  • A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later.

  • The Limitation on Armaments Congress convenes in Washington, D.C.

  • The Armaments Congress ends

    The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty.

  • The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming.

  • Warner Brothers Pictures is incorporated.

  • The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is show in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest.

  • The first Winter Olympic Games are held

    The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States, which won four medals.

  • . Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Calvin Coolidge.

  • Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President

    Calvin Coolidge wins his first election as President, retaining the White House for the Republican Party over his Democratic foe, John W. Davis, and Progressive Party candidate Robert M. La Follette. The Electoral margin was 382 to 136 (Davis) to 13 (La Follette).

  • The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs

    The first flight to the North Pole and back occurs when pilot Floyd Bennett, with Richard Evelyn Byrd as his navigator, guided a three-engine monoplane. They were awarded the Medal of Honor for their achievement.

  • The civil war in China prompts one thousand United States marines to land in order to protect property of United States interests.

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    The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000.

  • First success in the invention of television

    First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.

  • First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The complete electronic television system would be patented three years later on August 26, 1930.

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

  • Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States

    Herbert Hoover wins election as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory, 444 to 87 over Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith, the Catholic governor of New York.

  • The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder, later named Hoover Dam.

  • Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.

  • In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals and citizens in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • The Teapot Dome scandal comes to a close when Albert B. Fall,

    The Teapot Dome scandal comes to a close when Albert B. Fall, the former Secretary of the Interior, is convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe for leasing the Elk Hills naval oil reserve. He is sentenced to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine.

  • Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash

    Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
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    Music

    Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at the Apollo stage in New York.
    T Bone Walker started experimenting with a prototype electric guitar.
    Johnny Mercer opened Columbia Records
    The great depression happened 1350 US banks closed.
    Al Capone got arrested for tax evasion.
    John Lomax was discovered and recorded “Leadbelly” at the Angola Prison farm
    200,025 Jukeboxes were operational in places throughout the country

  • American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

  • The London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed into law by the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Japan, to take effect on January 1, 1931. It would expire on December 31, 1936.

  • The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover. Its effective rate hikes would slash world trade.

  • In order to combat the growing depression, President Herbert Hoover

    In order to combat the growing depression, President Herbert Hoover asks the U.S. Congress to pass a $150 million public works project to increase employment and economic activity. On the New York City docks, out of work men wait for food and jobs during the Great Depression, an outcome of the Stock Market crash of 1929 after the prosperous decade of the 1920's.

  • The Star-Spangled Banner

    he Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is approved by President Hoover and Congress as the national anthem. The lyrics of the anthem were inspired during the bombing of Fort McHenry by British ships at the head of Baltimore harbor in September of 1814.

  • Unemployment in 1932 reached twelve million workers

  • The highest continuous paved road in the United States, the Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is opened to traffic.

  • Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Democratic challenger Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms. The landslide victory, 472 Electoral College votes to 59 for Hoover began the era of FDR that would lead the nation through the vestiges of the Great Depression and the ravages of World War II.

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.

  • The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.

  • The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is established with the signing of the Securities Exchange Act into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • The United States pulls its troops from Haiti. December 29, 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930

  • The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal legislation and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • The Historic Sites Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, declaring a national policy to preserve historic sites, including National Historic Landmarks.

  • Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

  • Gone with the Wind is published by Margaret Mitchell

  • The Summer Olympics Games open in Berlin, Germany

    The Summer Olympics Games open in Berlin, Germany under the watchful eye of German leader Adolph Hitler, whose policies of Arian supremacy had already begun to take shape. The star of the games was Jesse Owens, a black American, who won four gold at the Berlin 1936 Games

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt overwhelms his Republican challenger, Alfred Landon, for a second presidential term. His Electoral College margin, 523 to 8, and 62% of the popular vote insured Roosevelt carte blanche in his goals of the New Deal.

  • William Henry Hastie is appointed to the federal bench, becoming the first African-American to become a federal judge.

  • William Henry Hastie is appointed to the federal bench, becoming the first African-American to become a federal judge.

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the U.S. Congress for a defense budget hike.

  • The New York World's Fair opens for its two year run.

  • Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Einstein had arrived as a fugitive from Nazi Germany six years earlier on October 17, 1933.

  • The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II after a year of European attempts to appease Hitler and the aims of expansionist Nazi Germany.