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The Great Migration
This is when the slaves became free. Many migrated to the North, where they are free to find jobs and homes. This was a struggle because of the racisem still lingering, yet got better because of the whites getting sent to war in World War 1 -
Invention of the Computer
The first computer resembling today's modern machines was the Analytical Engine, a device conceived and designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage. This helps us get information, get connected to people, and share our livers. -
Invention of the Automoblie
French Amédée Bollée was the guy who first built self-propelled steam road vehicles to transport groups of passengers.This was thought to be the first car. This make transportantion effeciant and quick. -
Invention of the Telephone
This invention was created by Alexander Gram Bell, which enables us to talk to people from all around the world. Now a days, telephones also can be used for getting on the internet, playing games, and locking your house, -
Invention of the Radio
Guglielmo Marconi an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. This is used to lsiten to music, stories, and was one of the first inventions of comunication, -
19th Ammendment
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. This is important because it gave women the right to vote, which is a huge right. -
Invention of the TV
This is important becaue this is what most of America spends hours and hours watching. This created information to be found right when it's happening. -
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which made the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal (but not the consumption). This was important because it created a subculture of speakeasies and racketeers who were responsible for the bootlegging of alcohol. It also gave rise to the "flappers", a type of modern woman that was less domestic, more world wise and more free than the tradi -
Emergency Quota Act
This was to create a temporary legeslation that restricts immigration into the United States. The Emergency Quota 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. -
Immigration Act
A United States federal law that limited the annual 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, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. This suspened the Emergency Quota Act. -
Black Tuesday
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941. -
Election of Franklin Roosevelt
This is an important time in history because if without Franklin I don't think we would have ever got out of The Great Depression crisis. -
21st Ammendment
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. This is important because this created alcohol to be legal again which has created a lot of alcoholics. -
Hoover Dam
Essential flood control, the dam would make possible the expansion of irrigated farming in the parched region. It would also provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and other Southern California communities. As envisioned by Secretary Hoover, the project would be self-supporting, financed entirely through the sale of hydroelectric power generated at the dam. -
GI Bill of Rights
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation -
Invention of Frisbee
This is important because this is one of the most popular toys that we have today. -
Invention of the Internet
This makes it easy to talk to people you haven't seen, learn new stuff, and to make sure your in the wurl pool of media.
