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In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville made the first crewed, powered flight in history with the Write brother's flying the plane.
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Assembly lines divided operations into simple tasks and cut unessesary motion to a minimum.
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Ford increased their workers' wages to $5 a day which is double their original pay and they only have to work 8 hour shifts.
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After one year in the Senate Harding ran to be the president and won. He promised "a return of normalcy".
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The automobile finally became an accepted part of american life.
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The Westinghouse Company broadcasted the news of Harding's landslide election victory from the station KDKA which is one of the first public broadcasting in history.
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The controversal Sacco-Vanzetti Case reflected the prejudice and fears of the era. The case created a furor when newspapers revealed that the two men where anarchists.
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The conference was meant to help but instead it did nothing to limit land forces and it angered the Japanese because it required Japan to maintain a smaller Navy then the US and Great Britain.
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A famous scandal that happened when Albert B. Fall secrectly allowed privtate interests to lease lands in the containing US Navy oilreserves.
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This act raised tarrifs dramatically in an effort to protect american industries from foreign competition.
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When Calvin ran for the Republican nomination they used the slogan "Keep Cool with Coolidge" and promised the American people that the politics that had brought prosperity would continue.
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Charles G. Dawes negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany by which American banks would make loans to Germany that would enable it to make reparations payments.
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Every year from 1924- 1928 Senator Charles McNary of Oregon and Representative Gilbert Haugen of Iowa proposed the McNary-Haugen Bill, a plan in which the government would boost farm prices by buying up surpluses and selling them, at a loss, overseas.
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The pact stated that all the signing nations agreed to abandon war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means.
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In 1929 Secretary Fall became the first cabinet officer in American history to go to prison for recieving bribes from private investors.
