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Cars
The automobile as we know it was not invented in a single day by a single inventor. The automobile reflects an evolution that took place worldwide. -
Television
not just one person invented the tv, Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television -
19th amendment
Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution -
18th amendment
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. -
Emergency Quota Act
the act imposes a quota that limited the number of immigrants who would be admitted from any country annually -
immigration act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act,The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia -
Black Tuesday
the day the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This means that the prices for stock were too high, far higher than they were really worth. Then they fell sharply. People who had unwisely borrowed money to buy high-priced stocks -
black thursday
also known as the Great Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 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 -
The great migration
Started from 1910 and ended in1930 the Great Migration was the movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, and asserted in his speech Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
21st amendment
when Congress passes an amendment and requests to approve from the states, the individual state elected a vote on the amendment, However, this time, Congress said that "conventions of states" should vote on the amendment. Since Prohibition was so unpopular by 1933, the Congress figured that they would pass the amendment. -
Hoover Dam constructed
during the day, poor sanitary conditions and poor water set the stage for communities know as "Ragtowns." In order to improve their quality of life and to save people from disease, electricity came to the area and Boulder City was established. -
1933 (state of economy)
just days before Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration as President, the United States was in the middle of a banking,Washington Governor Clarence Martin closed all Washington State banks and declared a three-day “bank holiday,” working with other state governments to pushing for the passage of a federally mandated bank holiday. -
GI Bill of Rights
Offered year-long unemployment benefits allowed veterans from swamping the economy: year-long unemployment benefits allowed veterans to be absorbed into civilian employment gradually, and high education benefits were designed to keep men in college and out of the job market -
Frisbee Invented
the person who thought it up first. Sometimes who was first can be a topic for hot debate: often several people independent of each other will all think of the same good idea at around the same time and will later have to argue -
The Internet
A single person did not create the Internet that we know and use today. Below is a listing of several different people who've helped contribute and develop the Internet. with communications between the University of California in Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute
