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Invention of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was the successful inventor of the telephone in 1876, His invention directly resulted from his improvements to the telegraph. By 1930, over fifteen million telephones were in service. -
Beginning of the Great Migration
Because of WWI, there was a large number of white men that had left for the war. This left many opportunites for blacks to take (the worst possible) now open jobs. Because of this, there was a massive migration of 2 million+ towards the north to find better jobs, schools, less racism, etc. -
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Great Migration
This was the movement of more than 2,000,000 people northward to seek better opportunites. -
Speech is first Officially Brodcast via Radio
Speech was first transmitted across the continent from New York to California. There was also a transmission from Virgina to Paris. This was very successful and about 5 years later, daily radio program schedules began. -
18th Amendment Passed
This amendment began the prohibition act which criminalized the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. Proponents of this act were women's and church groups. This act would last 13 years, resulting in the creation of black-market style practices. -
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The Prohibition Act
This was the timespan in which alcohol was criminalized in the United States. -
19th Amendment Passed
Strongly pushed for by Susan B. Anthony, this amendment gave women the right to vote. More accurately, this no longer allowed voting to be determined by sexual discrimination. During this time, Woodrow Wilson was president. He however, was an opponent of this amendment. -
Immigration Act of 1921 (aka Emergency Quota Act)
This act was passed in response to the fact too many immigrants were competing for american jobs. Therefore there became a limit to 3% of any particular race's annual population count allowed to enter the U.S. Because of this, the United States showed a willingness to protect native values. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Similar to the Emergency Quota Act except for now the immigrants entering the U.S. must not exceed 2% of that race's annual population count. This created a more permanant change in immigration policy. Headed by president Calvin Coolidge, there was now a national identity of the U.S. -
15,000,000th Model T car Produced
This car rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line in Highland Park, Michigan. Ford seemed to know that the long production life of the Model T was about to come to an end. This was still the industrial success story of its age. -
Black Thursday
On this day, panicked sellers traded nearly thirteen million shares of stock while investors suffered a five billion dollar loss. This caused the end of widespread optimisim and began to trigger the great depression. This crash had many contributing factors such as tarffs, poor investments, and scandals. -
Black Tuesday - Beginning of the Stock Market Crash
This was the first day that the Stock Market began to crash due in part to speculative buying. Stocks, being sold for more than 50 times their orignial value, were bought in mass. However, their value plumitted and banks began to close due to their own bad investments.. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
Once he was elected, he began a massive amount of reforms within a "hundred days". This was more reforms in such a short time period than most presidents do in their entire term. Since then, prohibition ended and people gained more faith in the banks as well as the economy. -
21st Amendment Passed
This repealled the 18th amendment and therefore ended prohibition. This was done due to the increase of alcohol related crimes and a decrease in tax revenue from alcohol sales. With the 21st amendment now passed, people were able to produce, sale, and consume alcohol once more without being criminalized. -
State of the Economy in 1933
There was a great number of economic reforms being done by President Roosevelt. The country had begun to form a state of action. People had become more faithful in banks and the "Great Depression" was comming to an end. -
The Invention of the First Programmable Computer
In 1936, a German construction engineer made a mathematical calculator known as the "Z1". He used it to explore many groundbreaking calculator principles. For this, he gained the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern computer". -
Hoover Dam Completed
Construction was started on this project during April 20, 1931. The Herbert Hoover was given 7 years to complete this monolithic structure and therefore he, and his workers, were stressed to achieve the completion date. The whole dam was completed in 5 years instead of seven. -
First U.S. Televised Broadcast
The first television set was invented by a Scottish man named J.L. Baird in 1926. Fully televised broadcasts began in Germany by 1935. Six years later, the U.S. began televised broadcasts in 1941. -
GI Bill of Rights passed in U.S. Legislation
This bill provided benifits to war veterans such as college tuition, low-intrest mortgage, small business loans, job training & hiring privilages, and unemployment payments. This bill was also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment act of 1944. This allowed returning WWII vets to opt for education rather than flooding the job-market. -
First plastic frisbee invented.
Even though people would toss Frisbie-brand pie tins back and forth ever since the late 1800's early 1900's, the first true plastic frisbee was invented in 1948 by an LA building inspector and his innovative partner. Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni worked together in creating this improved version of an already popular toy. Morrison's father was also the inventor of the automotive sealed-beam headlight. -
ARPANET establishes a 50kbps line
This beginning to the internet wasn't flawless. The first attempt at communication between UCLA and SRI resulted in a dramatic crash. The second attempt worked fine, however, and improvements began to take shape.
