American history b

  • the car

    is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor
  • Telephone

    Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other
  • radio

    Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies significantly below those of visible light
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    the great migration

    a time in history where african slaves migraded north to create better opratunitys for them and there familys to have a better future
  • 18th amendment

    "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (for example, for medical and religious purposes).
  • 19th amendment

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the amendment and first introduced it in 1878; it was forty-one years later, in 1919, when the Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification. A year later, it was ratified by the requisite number of states, with Tennessee's ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the Constitution.
  • Emergency Quota Act

    it added 2 new features to American immigration law: numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system for establishing those limits.
  • Johnson–Reed Act

    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
  • Television

    Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London
  • Black Tuesday

    its the biggest stock market grash in history. over 9000 banks closed and every one took there money out of the market
  • 21st amendment

    it replaced the 18th amendment and stated that is was wrong to outlaw it
  • 1933 state of the economy

    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. The programs were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform
  • fdr elected

    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,
  • Computer

    a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention.and its used for things like reaserch and to help digitaly communicate
  • hoover damn constructed

    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 and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named in honor of President Herbert Hoover.
  • black thursday

    October 14, 1943, when the Allies suffered large losses during bombing in the Second Raid on Schweinfurt during World War II
    Night of 16/17 December 1943, when RAF Bomber Command losses in the Berlin bombing campaign were particularly high due to combat losses and bad weather over home airfields
  • gi bill

    was a law that provided college (or high school or vocational education) for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation
  • frisbee

    In 1948, a Los Angeles building inspector named Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the Frisbie that could fly further and with better accuracy than a tin pie plate.
  • internet

    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks,