American history B

  • the car

    henery ford made the first car becuase he was the first person the make an assembly line and he could get cars made twice as fast as before.
  • the computer

    In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991, the London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine No 2 for the bicentennial year of Babbage's birth and later completed the printing me
  • the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876.The telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph.
  • the radio

    While it is debated by many historians, most people believe that the radio was invented in 1896 by Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi improved on many previous designs and made the first radio that really worked and was commercially viable. Therefore, he is credited as the inventor.
  • the great migration

    this is the great migration . and when 6 million afericans moved from the south to the north to get away from racim. even through when they moved they stiff surrerd from discrmination.
  • 18th admenment

    the 18th admenment was when congress passed the prohibition and said that there shell be no sale of liqour
  • the 19th admenment

    this admenment let woman have the right to vote and work out side the home . becuse before the passed it was like woman had no voice in anything
  • Emergent quota act

    May 19, 1921, restricted immigration into its country; the act imposed a quota that limited the number of immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country who lived in the United States, based on the United States Census figures from 1910. Taking native-born residents into account, this calculation indicated a total of 357,802 new immigrants would be allowed annually.
  • immagration act

    this is the immagration act if 1924. its about the U.S goverment was making limitation on perple coming to america from other countries.
  • the television

    John Logie Baird showed a working television system to the public in 1925. Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system in Hastings, England, in 1923. His public demonstration subsequently took place in Selfridges, a department store in London England, during March 1925. The system was successful enough to become commercialized, and the BBC began the world's first regular television broadcasts in January 1929, using Baird's system.
  • black tuesday

    On Tuesday October 29th, 1929, Wall Street witnessed a 13% decline in the Dow Jones, an episode that became known in financial mythology as “Black Tuesday.” It is generally recognized that Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression. Between early September and the end of October 1929 the market lost a total of 40% in less than 8 weeks. In reality Black Tuesday was just the end of the beginning of the crash on Wall Street.
  • black thursday

    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout
  • hoover dam consructed

    It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • state of economy

    before roosevelt became president the united states was in to middle of a banking panic.Black Thursday was the beginning of one of the stock market crashes in U.S. history. The day itself wasn't so bad. On October 24th, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 305.85
  • roosevelt became president

    FDR was the 32nd presidnet and when he was 28b he ran for state sente
  • GI bill of rights

    G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans commonly referred to as G.I.s Benefits included low-cost mortgages, loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education,
  • the internet

    Development of internet started in 1957 when Sputnik I (the first satellite) was launched by Soviet Union. Americana felt threat by this and thought that the Soviet Union could also do bomb attacks from the space. So they created Defense Advanced Research Project Agency in 1958. It worked for the safety from space based missile attack. Then they made another satellite which was the first satellite of U.S.
  • frisbie invented

    Hungry college students soon discovered that the empty pie tins could be tossed and caught, providing endless hours of game and sport. Many colleges have claimed to be the home of 'he who was first to fling.' Yale College has even argued that in 1820