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The Frisbee was invented
The Frisbie Pie Company began selling pies to nearby college students. The college students would eat the pies and then throw the tins that held them. Thus the birth of the first Frisbee. -
Patent of the Telephone
With the financial support of the wealthy patrons, Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Alexander Graham Bell was able to fund his experiments with the telephone. And in 1876 he had finally finished his device and rushed to get it a patent. -
Invention of the Automobile
The first automobile with an internal combustion gasoline engine was Karl Benz' Benz Patent Motorwagon. -
Invention of the radio
In 1890 Edouard Branly demonstrated what he later called the radio-conductor, which was the first sensitive device for detecting radio waves. from then to 1910 many others helped slowly develope wireless transmissions and radio waves. -
The Great Migration
The great migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the southern states into the northeast, midwest, and west. They moved to escape violence, to seek new job opportunities, and fair treatment. -
18th Amendment ratified
The 18th amendment to the constitution established prohibition in the United States. This amendment defined that intoxicating liquors were prohibited, it also stated which were not prohibited such as liquor used for religious or medical purposes. -
19th Amendment ratified
The 19th Amendment to the constitution prohibits any United States citizens to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Invention of the Television
The television has been comercially available since 1920 and has become a vehicle for advertising, entertainment, and news. -
Emergency Quota Act
Also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921. The act restricted the amount of immigrants admitted from any country yearly to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the census of 1910. -
Immigration Act of 1924
This act was the same as the emergency quota act of 1921, except it lowered the amount of immigrants from 3% to 2%. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday marked the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. -
Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929 about 16 millions stock shares were traded, all the while the DOW lost another 30 points, or 12%. The amount of stocks that were traded on black tuesday was a record unbroken for nearly 40 years. -
1933 (state of the economy)
Unemployment had hit a high of 25% in 1933. 1933 was the peak year of the great depression, but it was also the turning point for recovery. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected into office
FDR's first 100 days in office were focused mainy around immediate relief for the American people. The day after he was elected congress passed the Emergency Banking Act which declared a bank holiday in order for them to have a chance to reopen. FDD then signed the Glass-Steagall Act, which created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. -
21st Amendment ratified
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment which had mandated nationwide prohibition. -
Hoover Dam Constructed
The largest concrete structure built at the time was worked on by thousands, but it also took more than one hundred lives. Despite the size of the project, the dam was finished in about 6 years which was 2 years ahead of schedule. -
The first Programmable computer
The Zuse Z3 was an electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the worlds first programmable, fully automatic computing machine. By modern standards the Z3 was one of the first machines that could be considered a complete computing machine. -
G.I. Bill of Rights
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided college or vocational education, as well as 1 year of unemployment compensation for returning veterans. The bill also provided many different types of loans for veterans to buy homes and start businesses. -
Invention of the Internet
The Merit Network was created in 1966. Although it was nothing compared to the internet we know today, it was still the very first network ever. Without this network we wouldn't have the internet.