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Introduction of Automobile
The first automobiles began as early as 1769. These cars were created with steam-powered. In 1806 the first cras running on fuel gas and powered by internal combustion engines. These cars eventually led to modern gasoline used vechicle in 1885. -
Steel Plow
The steel plow was invented by John Deere in 1837. This was used to help Great Plains farmers. The plow could cut through tough prairie ground. This made farming much easier. -
The 15th Amendment
This amendment prohibits federal or state governments from infringing on a citizen's right to vote. This would include on the account of: race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This gave blacks their voting rights and helped racism in the U.S. become where it is today. -
Telephone
The invention of the telephone by Alexander Bell is a great modern convenience. Now we are able to communicate to people all across the world without seeing them in person. This tool has revolutionized are daily lives greater than any other tool could have. -
NAWSA
The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded in 1890. This group helped win over women's suffrage and gain the right to vote for women. They also did many other things that made the role of women more important in the U.S. -
Mechanization of Labor
The first gasoline powered tractor was invented by John Froelich. The tractor helped farmers get their work done much faster. So in conclusion, they coould sell more crops because the area would be harvested faster. So more money was being made by the farmers. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This law was the only U.S. law that ever to prevent immigration to America. The law prohibited immigration to China for the next ten years. The act did not only prevent new immigartion, but also provented the reunion of families because thousands of chinese men had left without their wives and kids. -
Radio
The invention of the radio was first started when the discovery of "radio waves" was found. These waves have the capacity to transmit music, speech, pictures, and other data invisibly through the air. These waves let people listen to others talk from far distances. The invention has changed America in that we don't have to see people face to face to hear what they are saying. -
Assembly Line
The Model T and the assembly line produced by Henry Ford helped make the average american worker drive a car. Now automobiles were not just a luxary toy but part of American society. Henry Ford made the manufacture of the Model T speed up so the cost would go down as they were easy to supply. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a new negro movement. Many blacks migrated to the north after the abolishing of slavery. They fit right perfect in Harlem. There they could express their thoughts. They started to thrive on music in the Harlem neighborhood. Many artists became famous for their jazz skills at this time as well. -
Start of Prohibition
Prohibition began with two main movements; Anti-Saloon and Women's Christian Temperance Union. The movements fought for the end of alcholic beverages. They thought it was damaging family life and wanted it to stop. The whole country finally agreed and against Wilson's veto, the ban of alchol was accepted in the eight-teenth amendment. -
Bomb Plot in the Red Scare
In April 1919, police authorities found a plot for mailing thirty six bombs to important members of the U.S. political and economics establishment. These members were: J.P. Morgan, John D. Pockefeller, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and General Palmer. -
Bombings in the Red Scare
On June 2, 1919, eight bombs were simultaneously exploded in eight different cities in one hour. General Palmer was a target in the bombings. However, he was unharmed and the bomber (a radical from Philadelphia) was killed. Afterwards, General Palmer ordered the launch of the Palmer Raids. -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids were the United States Department of Justice and Immigration and Naturalization Service preforming a series of controversial raids against suspected radical immigrants in the U.S. The raids are named after the United States Attorney General under President Wilson, Alexander Palmer. The raids were started on November 7, 1919 by BOI agents and local police. Information from the Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1919 was used to tortue suspected radicals for information. -
The 19th Amendment
This amendement prohibits each state or federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. This allowed women more rights today as they gained the right to vote (mostly due to the work of the National Woman's Party). -
Immigration Act
This act included the National Origins Act and Asian Exclsuion Act. The act used the census of 1890 to limit the number of immigrants who could be allowed from any country to 2% of the people who were already living in the U.S. in 1890. -
National Origins Act
This law cut the number of immigrants down, It also excluded all Asian immigrants under provisions of the Naturalization Act. In addition it was the first permanent limitation on immigration into the U.S. and established the "national origins quota system." -
End of Prohibition
President Roosevelt signed the Volstead Act on March 23, 1933. This said that the manufacture and sale of certain kinds of alcoholic beverages would be allowed. Then in the same year on December 5, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the eight-teenth amendment. -
Internet
The invention of the Internet was first started when the Soviet Union launcehed Sputnik 1, the first satellite. This invention has made life on Earth today so much easier. We can now chat with our friends, search interesting facts, and write papers all at once on a fairly small sized object. -
KKK
In Mississippi Charkes Moore and Henry Dee were beaten and killed by local members of the KKK. Their bodies were found in the Mississippi River. -
KKK
The KKK was imported to South Carolina from Tennesse. During South Carolina's election campaign, the Klan murdered 8 blacks. 2 of them were congressmen.
