U.S History B timeline

By tehshyer

  • Automobile

    The French developed the first internal combustion engine for a Automobile.

  • Telephone

    This date is the birth of the telephone.

  • Radio

    This is when the radio was first invented.

  • The Great Migration

    African Americans migrated to the North and West to escape racism and to seek jobs in
    industrial cities.

  • 18th Amendment

    Its were "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (for example, for medical and religious purposes).

  • 19th Amendment

    It prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

  • Emergency Quota Act

    The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States.

  • Immigration Act 1924

    Initially the quotas were set at 2 percent of a country's foreign-born residents in the United States in 1890.

  • Television

    This date is segnificant because it is the the worlds first demonstration of the Television.

  • Black Thursday

    The day that the Stock Market Crashed.

  • Black Tuesday

    16 million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

    Because his promises to help the US from the Great Depression and the changes he was going to make.

  • 1933 (state of economy)

    The peak of the Great Depression.

  • 21st amendment

    Is were "Prohibition" took plase, it's where the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.

  • Hoover Dam constructed

    This project was to help with unimployment and keeping water to the desert population.

  • GI Bill of Rights

    With the GI Bill of Rights it aloud families that had to do with the army move out of urban apartments and into suburban homes and have a study life with jobs and schools.

  • Computer

    Was when the first computer was anounced to the puplic.

  • The Frisbee

    The Frisbee was something new that gathered people together to have some fun. It was played during the war and a lot more after. It’s still something that is used often for either fun or for competition.

  • Internet

    The first website was set up.