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telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). -
The Automobile
Over 100,000 patents created the modern automobile. Karl Benz, the German mechanical engineer designed and built the world's first practical automobile In 1885, and Henry Ford, who improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing and invented a car transmission mechanism, and others. -
Radio
The radio is a device that plays music. Also it has talk shows it is how people stayed entertaned when there was no television. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 2 million African Amer5icans out of the southern United States to the midwest, northeast and west from 1910 to 1930. -
18th amendment
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
19th amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Emergency quota act
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The Immigration Act of 1924
The 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 in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. -
Black Tuesday
Black tuesday was when the stock market was down and hit an even steeper decline when the stock market crashed. -
Black Thursday
Black thursday was when the stockmarket crashed. Everyone lost everything. It was so bad that people were jumping out of windows. -
Hoover Dam constructed
The hoover dam is a large dam in clark county, Nevada/ Mohave county, Arizona and was made by the government after the great depression. to build the Hoover Dam it coast approximately $49 million. The Length is 1,244 ft the Crest width 45 ft Base width 660 ft the Volume 3,250,000 and the Crest elevation is 1,232 ft. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
Franklin D. Roosevelt was known for his new deal plan like the fdic, aaa, nira, fha and the GI bill of rights. many of his new deals still are used to day. -
21st amendment
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. -
computer
1936 a man named konrad zuse made the first freely programmable computer. -
Frisbee invented
The frisbee was invented by a husband and a wife who bought a cake pan and tossed it back in forth on the beach. It cought peoples eyes. The husband and wife bought cake pans for 5 cents and sold them for 25 cents. They made there business and made the cake panes in to plastic and called them flying sucers. -
television
television wasnt common to have untell 1939. When television came out there was only two chanles you could watch. -
GI Bill of Rights
The G.I bill of rights is money spent by the government towards a solders education. Also it was small lones to veterans for a house. -
Internet
The internet starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals -
1933
1933 was the peak of the great depression. millions of people lost their life savings. Around 7 dillion dollars in deposits had been frozen by failed banks. 1933 was the worst our econemy has ever been.
