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On this date the firrst words were heard on the telephone. Peoplke were now able to comminucate verbaly without being in the same room as the other person
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American engineer Reginald A Fessenden transmitted the first human voice to a reciver
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Henry Ford made the assembly line which made making cars very fast and efficient
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This is when more than 6 million African Americans moved from the rural south to the cities in the north
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Made the manufacturing, sale, import, export, and transpotation of alcohol illegal
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Ended prohibition and the government started taxing the sale of alcohol to make money.
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Granted women the right to vote
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Limted the amount of immigrants that enter the US frrom each country.
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This set Qoutas that was a limit on how many immigrants can come from certain countries each year
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When the stock market plummeted which caused the great depression
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The stock market crashed
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In the early 30's fuzzy broadcasts were shown of wrestling, dance and music to some people but in 1939 at the worlds fair in New York the NBC was announced.
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This is how long it took for the Hoover damn to be constructed.
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This was the first time a democrat took control of the white house since Abraham Lincoln. FDR came up with new deal which created gov. programs like welfare and social security which helped strenthen the economy.
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The year started of horrible in the first couple of months but FDR came out with the new deal and the economy started to get better gradually.
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Helped veterans out like helping them go back to school
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In 1948 invented the plastic frisbee which could fly faster and further than the tin ones.
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In 1969 the internet connected the four major US universitys.
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In 146 the Univeristy of Pennsylvania introduced the first electronic general purpose computor.
