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Model T
The first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972. -
The Great Migration
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. African Americans left to escape Jim Crow laws. -
The Jazz Age
Jazz is music that features improvisation with off beat rhythms. This type of music was ceated by African Americans. Jazz clubs and dance halls began to spring up. -
Growth of Movies
5,000 theatres to 22,500. Fourth largest business in America. First talkie. -
Warren G. Harding's Dawes PLan
In an agreement of August 1924, the main points of The Dawes Plan were: The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied occupation troops. Reparation payments would begin at one billion marks the first year, increasing annually to two and a half billion marks after five years. -
Harlem Renaissance
The new musical form known as jazz is showcased at Aeolian Hall in New York in the “First American Jazz Concert” -
Charles Lindbergh the American Aviator
Charles Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had cross the Atlantic beofre him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. -
Buying on margin
Buying on margin became so popular that by the late 1920s, "ninety percent of the purchase price of the stock was being made with borrowed money." Not only that ... the U.S. economy had come to depend on that activity. Before the crash, nearly forty cents of every dollar loaned in America was used to buy stocks. As more people bought stocks with borrowed money, the demand for stocks increased - as did the prices. In 1928 alone, the stock market doubled. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
A 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them." Parties failing to abide by this promise "should be denied of the benefits furnished by this treaty." It was signed by Germany, France and the United States on August 27, 1928, and by most other nations soon after. Sponsored by France and the U.S., the Pact renounced the use of war. -
The Stock Market - Black Thursday
The first day of the panic when 12,894,650 shares were traded. In result of this, banks and investment companies bought large blocks of stocks to branch the panic. -
Black Tuesday
Usually about 4-8 million shares are sold a day. On this Tuesday, 16.4 million shares are sold. The stock market collapsed. $30 billion dollars investment lost in the stock market -
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart
On July 2, 1937, the airfract carrying Amelia Earhart and her naigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.
