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"Pop-up" Toaster invented
While General Electric built the first electric toaster for the home in 1909, 10 years later when Minneota mechanic Charles Strite created on easy-to-use-toaster, designed for restraunts. He recieved his patent in 1921 for the slice toaster. He then formed a company and manufactured his product. -
Claude McKay write "If We Must Die"
He writes this peom to tell African Americans to fight back. Even though they have no chance of winning the battle. He wanted them to stand up and fight like who they are, men. -
Adolf Hitler helps to organize Nazi party
The Nazi party would be organized like a government itself so that when power was succeeded and democracy was legitimately ended.Hitler became the chancellor of Germany on January 1933 -
Prohibtion becomes the law
The Unites States proposed this admendment, it soon was ratified and became part of the constitution. This lasted from 1920 to 1933. This law banned sale, production, and consumption of alcohol. Secret bars known as "speakeasies" were often hidden clubs that sold alcohol. -
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Kool-Aid invented
Edwin Perkins made "Fruit Smack" but was a liquid, so liquid weighed alot more than powder.It would also cost him more to ship it so he mad a powder version. It weighed lighted than liquid and was cheaper to ship. Kraft foods owns Koolaid now. -
Hair Dryer invened
Alexander Godefroy made thsi by looking vaccum cleaner. Alexander invented this o use in his hair salon in France. But it was not handheld nor portable, instead would have the woman sit underneath it to dry their hair. -
Marcus Garvey begins Back to Africa Movement
This movement is also known as Colonization movement and Black Zionism. Which originated in the U.S. in the 19th century. This movement encouraged African Americans to return home to their African homelands of their ancestors. -
19th Amendment Passed
Gave women the right to vote and to have rights. THe right is known as Women Suffrage. On 188 the movement for womans right launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York and was organized by Elizabeth Cody Staton and Lucretia Matt. -
Harlem Renaissance begins
A burst of African-American culture in the 20's and 30's. This began after World War 1. It took place in Harlem. This involved new art, music, dance, theater, poets writers, and scholars. -
Band-Aid invented
Earle Dickson made the band-aid mainly for his wife. Because when she would cook, she would burn or cut herself while making the food. -
First Commercial Radio Broadcast made
It aired the presidential election that year. Mordern Radio broadcasting was born, and the "Golden Age of Radio" began. -
Warren G Harding elected president
Warren G Harding was the twenty-ninth president of the United States. He served in office from 1921 to 1923 before dying of a herat attack on his way to California. After Harding died VIce President Calvin Coolidge took over as president. -
United States fail to ratify Treay of Versailles
The United States failed to ratify Treaty of Versallies because of the League of Nations. There were serious concerns that the league would "erode" United States sovereignty and pull the United States into further wars that wore not in its intrest. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
This Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1924, during PResident Warren G Hardings time in office. Albert Fall (Warren's Secretary of Interior) had leased Navy Petrileum reserves in Wyoming at Teapot Dome. He also leased two other locations in California to private oil companies.THis was a name of an oil drilling on public lands Scandal. -
Emergency Quota Act passed
On MAy 19, 1921, the same day the law was passed by United States COngress, recently sworn President Warren G Harding signed the Emergancy Quota Act and made it the law. This act was also known as the EMergency Immigration Act of 1921. THis act limited the number of immigrants from any country. Most likely only people from Northern Europe who had similar cultures to America were likely to get in. -
Five power Naval Treaty Created
This Treaty put regulations into place about warships and how many certain countries could have. Such as 525,000 for United States and Great Britsin. 315,000 for Japan. 175,000 for France and Italy. United States had to scrap 28 capital ships. Competitive building continued untill the 1930 London Treaty. -
Sheppard Towner Act
On November 23, 1921 President Warren G. Harding signed the Sheppard Towner Maternity and the Infancy Protection Act. This ment the fedral government funded states to establish and run prental and child health care centers. Although this wasn't a strong act it was quite a move for the fedral goernmnet to bring public help towards mothers and infants. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff passed
On September 21, 1922 Forney-McCumber TAriff was signed by President Warren G Harding. This Tariff was a law that rasied American tariffs on many imported goods i oreder to protect factories and farms. THis brought more American goods in when congress put on a pro-bussiness attiude in passing this Tariff. THis rasied Tariffs to an all-time high. -
Harding dies in office
While in office Harding clasped of a Heart Attack and he died. He was traveling to California at th etime of his death. He was one of the eight presidents to die in office. Calvin Coolidge steped up and took his place and became president. -
Calvin Coolidge becomes president
Cooligde became president when Hardin died in office. He was vice president so he stepped up and became president. He served for six years. Calvin Cooligde wore a black armband im mourning and rememberence of Warren Harding. -
Immigration Act ( Johnson-Reed Act )
The Immigration act regulates the flow of immagrants entering to the U.S. This meant there is a limit on how many immigrants were aloowed to enter the U.S. -
Nellie Ross elected governor
She was the first female elected a state governor. She remains the only woman to have ever served as governor of Wyoming. SHe was also a bi supporter of prohibition during the 1920's. -
Income tax rate lowered to 25%
The top tax is lowered to 25%. An dthe lowest top rate in the eighth decade since World War 1. -
The Scopes Trial begins
Also, known as Scopes Monkey Trial. This was a case in 1925. Where a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accussed of breaking the Tennessee's Butler Act. -
KKK marches on Washington D.C.
The KKK was founded in 1915 and was inspired by the Reconstruction Era, organization of the same name. The "secret" society had 3 million memebers during its heyday in the early 1920s. The "kon-klave" that marached over Washington,DC succeeded on attractting national attention but marked the top of Klan power in the 1920's. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gastsby
The Great Gatsby recieved mixed reviews and sold poorly, in its first year. The book olny sold 20,000 copies. After Fitzgerald dies in 1940, his book went viral. It then became part of American highs schools after he died. -
Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun also Rises
The charachters in his novel are based on real life people in Hemingway life and the actions are based on real life events that happend. Hemingway uses the themes love, death, renewal, and nature of mascutinity -
Coolidge vetoes McNary-Haugen Bill
Coolidge thought the McNary-Haugen bill was unconstitutional. The bill he said "granted" almost unlimited control of the agricultural industry "to the federal Farm Board. And this was aganist "all priciples of equaty." -
The Great Mississippi Flood
This was the greatest flood in history on the lower Mississippi River. Also one of the worst disasters in the history of the U.S. More than 23,000 square miles of land was covered in water. Hundreds of thousands of people were seprated/ displaced and around 250 people died. -
Charles Lindbergh makes solo flight across Atlantic
Other pilots had done this but they stopped along the way. Charles flew without stopping and with no window. He did this using a compass and math. He got two nicknames for this, "Lucky Lindy" and "Lone Eagle." Five years later his 20-month-old son Charles Augustus Jr was kidnapped from the family home in New Jersey. -
Ford Motor Company stops production of Model T
Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build 15 million Model Tcars. THe Model T was the longest production run of any car or automobile in history. Until the Volksagen's Beetle passed it in 1972 -
Ford Company Reduces the cost of the Model T to $260
Ford lowered this from $850 to $260. He did this because he was making this car at such a fast rate, he could lower the price. So now lower income people could afford this. -
"Wing" first movie to win Academy award
Wings is a 1927 American silent war film, that was set during World War 1. It was mainly looked at for its realistic air-combat sequences. It won the Academy Award for best picture. -
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in one season
Babe Ruth set the first truly long-term single season home run standard. However, his first Major League home run record was established during the 1919 season when he connected a then unbelievable twenty-nine times with the Boston Red Sox. -
"The Jazz Singer" opens in theaters
"The Jazz Singer" was the first featured-length motion picture, and American musical flim. This flim was not silent but no talking, they had music playing with it. -
The Bread Slicer was invented
Otto Frederick Rohwedder from Davenport, Iowa. He invented the first loaf-at-a-time-bread-slicing-machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destoryed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder has a fully working machine. -
First Micky Mouse cartoon in theaters
"Steamboat Wille" was released on November 18, 1928 in New York. The cartoon was also co-directed by WAlt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was again sevred as head animator. -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was given to the 1929 murder of six mob associates and mechanic of the North side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition era. -
Hoover becomes President
He was the 31st president. When Coolidge announced that he would not serve his full term of office, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate. -
The Stock Market crashes
On October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday hit wall street when investors traded 16 million shared on the New York stock exchanged in a single day. BIllions of dollars were lost, losing thousand of investors. America and the rest of the industrailized world spiraled downward into the Great Dpression. -
Mordern Art museum opens in New York City
Was devolped by Abby Rockefeller and two of her friends. They became known as "The Ladies." In Manhatten it opened to the public, November 7, 1929. Nine days after the Wall street crash.
