Technology Project #2 1921-1941

By JamesWrather
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    Tarzan

    Edgar Burroughs produced a new Tarzan novel every year during this time

  • Prohibition goes into effect

  • rise in people going to the movies

    over 40 million people attended movies i the early 1920's

  • congress passes the emergency immigration act

    this was to try and control the number of immigrants coming over here.

  • Texas elects a Klan member

    it was at the peak of the KKK and at this time they had one guy in the senate and over 5 million member.
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    Harlem Renaissance writers crank out tons of novels and short stories

  • Harding dies of a heart attack

  • Dixie to Broadway

    First all black show shown.

  • maximum model t production

    the ford factory was turning out a model t every 10 seconds

  • Red Grange joins Chicago bears

  • Alain Locke writes The New Negro

  • evolutionary battle

    in a courthouse in Tennessee the legal battle over a teacher that taught evolution was fought.

  • rise of credit

    more than 60% of cars were sold on credit at this time

  • Two Italian anarchists executed

  • Charles Lindbergh completes non stop flight from New York to Paris

  • consumer credit

    household purchases made on credit rose 120%
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    The Great Depression

    this was the worst depression the US had ever seen

  • radio in america

    half of all American homes contained a radio

  • 100,000 black immigrants come to the US

  • the Klan loses memberse

    their membership was only about 30k at this point.
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    WW2

    This is round two between the world and the world to see if anybody could reign in germany