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"Thirsty-First": The Start of Prohibition
Thirsty-First was the first day that the prohibition started because U.S, Congress passed the Wartime Prohibition Act that first banned the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content greater than 2.75% but later banned the sale, manufacture, transportation, import, and export of alcohol. Prohibition was the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and was the cause of Organized Crime and an outbreak of criminals such as Al Capone and the American Mafia, and Speakeasies. -
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The Jazz Age
Jazz music was a fusion of African and European Music that was popular in cities like NYC and Chicago that were known as Cultural Centers for Jazz. Many African American artists were known for their Jazz abilities. Some of these artists include Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie.The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance were similar because the African American's were getting recognized for their talents. -
Hollywood & Movies: The Flapper
The Flapper is a 1920 American Silent Comedy starring Olive Thomas. This movie infulenced this new lifestyle among women and many women were wearing short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz, wore excessive makeup, were involved in casual sexual relations, drove automobiles, drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes. -
19th Amendment: Woman's Right to Vote
The ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution ended an era of women's suffrage momements granting women the right to vote. -
Invention of Radio Stations
Although the invention of the radio can be traced back to the 1820s, the first U.S. Licenced Commercial Broadcast went on in Pittsburgh on November 2,1920. The radio station was called KDKA. -
Motion Picture
The International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, now known as the Ocsars, was founded in 1927 and helped Actors and Actresses achieve the American Dream. -
Charles Lindbergh (1st Solo Flight): American Hero
Charles Lindbergh was the first American aviator to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean (May 20-21). Not only was he an aviator, he was the author of several books including, "The Spirit of St. Louis" and "Boyhood on the upper Mississippi" and the inventor of the artifical heart that could pump stubstances necessary to live throughout tissues of an organ. -
1st Automobile made
The Model T was the first automobile that was produced by Henry Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908- May 27, 1927. In many ways this was part of finding the American Dream for the American People. It was the first afforable car produced in America and was created in a time period that Americans had extra money around to buy luxury items such as cars. Henry Ford also achieved the American Dream by inventing the first automobile. -
Hollywood & Movies: The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer was the first motion picture with synchronized dialogue leading to the decline of the silent films. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States becoming President the year of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Many American people say that Hoover is to blame because of his many policies that contributed to the crisis. His insensitivity towards millions of suffering American's also left a lasting impression. Hoovervilles were shantytowns built these suffering Americans and named after Herbert Hoover. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the start to the economic downfall also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929. When the stock market crashed, many people rushed to the market to sell their stocks to get money on what they could but the market did not have enough money to pay everyone at once. Therefore, most of the American people's money was lost and bank's were not liable to give them their money. In 1933, the unemployment rate was 25% leaving around 3.2 million people without jobs. -
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The Great Depression
There are many causes to the Great Depression era but the majority of the cause led to the fact that there was no federal aid but in place by the government which meant that there was no connection between the government and the economy. Some American people that lived during the time period thought that Herbert Hoover was to blame for the Great Depression so when FDR's inaugration took place in 1933 the people began to have hope in what seemed like a never-ending crisis. -
Emergency Banking Act: First Step to the New Deal
Five days after FDR took office, he passed the Emergency Banking Act which was the first part of the New Deal. The Emergency Banking Act ordered all banks to take a holiday for four days to stop people from withdrawing money from their bank accounts in atempt to restablize the very unstable banks. -
Black Sunday
Black Sunday was one of the black dust storms throughout the Dust Bowl time period. The Dust Bowl was a time period throughout the 1930s where dust storms damaged the agricultural economy throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
