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The Oldsmobile was introduced in 1897, along with the Olds Mobile Vehicle Company, but the first car was released in 1901.
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Henry Trost patented the fridge.
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The tractor made farmer's jobs much easier on the farm.
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The cotton picker was a machine that mechanically picked cotton. It didn't work very well though.
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Henry Ford created an assembly line in order to produce cars quicker.
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In 1914, congress passed a literacy test, disabling immigrants the ability to enter America
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Centralia Massacre- gun battle between the American Legion and the IWW
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At the beginning of the 1920s, women began receiving jobs, allowing them to become more equal to men. They took jobs in domestic service, manufacturing, and clerical, sales, and management positions.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a time of flowering for the black culture, as they earned much more respect from the whites.
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The Palmer Raids, occuring in the early 1920s, were raids by radicals and immigrants from southern or Eastern Europe.
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The Prohibition began
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The nineteenth amendment was a big turning point in women's roles in society. They got much more freedom.
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Wall Street bombing kills 38 and injures hundreds. Anarchists claimed responsibility.
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The radio was used for Americans to listen to music, news, and sports.
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The government created an act which kept track of how many immigrants were coming from different countries.
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Bessie Coleman was the first African American to receive an international's pilot license, and she was also the first female ever to hold a pilot's license.
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The National Origins Act limited the entrance of immigrants in America.
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The act was a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890.
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The Klan held a wedding in order to form their own "tradition and religion" that would supposively seem as if they had more power.
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Alexander Fleming created Penicillin by leaving his labratory and returning to a live saving pill.
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The Prohibition finally comes to an end.
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In Indiana, the Klu Klux Klan decreased from 180,000 members to none, all because Stephenson told the public of how he bribed and corrupted the government
