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Immigration Study
The majority of German immigrants came between 1820-1919. 8,202,388 people came to the United States during this period. -
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Technology...
All of things that were made between these years are very significant, especially in our life now, they have all just been upgraded. The radio, automobile, telephone, computers, and the internet, these things are all used in our everyday lives. -
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The Telephone
The telephone was invented in March of 1876, by Alexander Graham Bell. -
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The Great Migration
This Great Migration was a time where many people in Detroit, Michigan were unemployed, hungry, frustrated and desperate. This day is significant because its showing those of us who didn't live in that time that what we are living in now could be turning into another great depression and migration because more than half the United States is unemployed, hungry, frustrated and desperate. A lot of people are migrating to different parts of the world. People in England are doing the same thing. -
the 18th Amedment
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The 18th, 19th, & 20th Amendments
These amendments have been very significant through the years and that is why they are being recognized. -
The 19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Emergency Quota Act
It's been said that The Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910. Based on that formula, the number of new immigrants admitted fell from approximately 800,000 in 1920 to 310,000 in 1921-22. -
Creation of the Televisision
If it wasn't for J.L Baird televisions wouldn't have been made until much much later on. -
Black Thursday
nearly 13 million shares of stock were traded. It was a record number of stock trades for the U.S. and marked the end of
an upward trend on stock prices. On Black Thursday, the stock prices dropped so quickly, the stock ticker could not keep up. As the day progressed, the stock ticker lagged behind, failing to show the most up to date stock prices. -
Black Tuesday
"Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, about 16 million shares were traded, and the Dow lost an additional 30 points. The volume on stocks traded on October 29, 1929 was "...a record that was not broken for nearly 40 years, in 1968". Author Richard M. Salsman wrote that "on October 29 amid rumors that U.S. President Herbert Hoover would not veto the pending Hawley-Smoot Tariff bill—stock prices crashed even further". -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Election
F.D.R. was the only U.S. president to go above the standard 2 terms that presidents are voted for. I was elected 4 times. In 1932, 1936, 1940, & 1944. -
The 20th Amendement
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Economy Act
Act of Congress that cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans, moves intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States. -
Computers
+Hold a lot of information
+ability to search internet and write.
-could crash and erase everything.
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The Internet
Development of internet started in 1957 when Sputnik I (the first satellite) was launched by Soviet Union. American’s felt threat by this and thought that the Soviet Union could also do bomb attacks from the space. So they created Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) in 1958. -
Immigration Act (1924)
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GI Bill of Rights passed
The GI Bill of Rights was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It also provided many different types of loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses. Since the original act, the term has come to include other veteran benefit programs created to assist veterans of subsequent wars as well as peacetime service.
