Unit 1: Session 1 timeline

By NaaraAcosta

  • Computer

    This was significant because it gave people access to doing more things.

  • Car

    This was significant because it made it easier for people to move around and quicker.

  • Telephone

    This was significant because it was from a man that was just experimenting and ended up inveting something that is used world-wide.

  • Radio

    This was significant because it provided music for people.

  • The Great Migration

    This was significant because African Americans had to take many sacrifices to bea able to establish a good life.

  • 18th Amendment

    This was significant because it banned the manufacture, sale nad transportation of alcohol.

  • 19th Amendment

    This was siginficant because it denied the right to vote based on sex.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    This event was significant because it restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country into the United States. This gave many people little hope of a new life.

  • Immigration Act 1924

    This event was significant because this was the same as the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, except this one decresed the 3% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States to 2%.

  • Black Tuesday

    This was significant because it was a very hard time for the United States, when the stock market lost 11% of it's value.

  • Black Thursday

    This was significant because it was when the NYSE crashed leading to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

  • 1933 (State of Economy)

    This was significant because this year banks were closed because of economic stress.

  • FDR elected president

    This was significant because FDR was a great president and helped the economy and the people especially!

  • 21st Amendment

    This was significant because it ratified the 18th Amendment. So it was up to people.

  • Hoover Dam constructed

    This was significant not only because it was buit really big for the economy but also because many people gor a job because of their help constructing it.

  • GI Bill of Rights

    This was significant because it was specially for the veterans coming home from World War II.

  • Television

    This is significant because it was when the first still image was transfered from wires.

  • Frisbee invented

    This was significant because it became a new sport for people.

  • Internet

    This was significant because it gave people access to looking things up and do more.