History

Modern U.S History B

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham bell inventend the telephone by accident when he was trying to invent adevice that could send more then one telegram at the same time.
  • Radio

    Radio
    Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895
  • Automobile

    Henry Ford was the first massive produced car was introduce by 1920 50-60% car's in the world were model T from ford. And he was the first to have an assembly line.
  • The Great Migration

    The relocation of more then 6 million african americans from the harsh south to the cities of the north when they moved they started to build there home's as soon as they could.
  • The 18th Amendment

    The 18th amendment prohibited the manufacture,sale,transport,import,or export of alcohlic beverages
  • The 19th Amendment

    Granted american women the rights to vote the U.S was founed it's female citizens did not share the same rights as man including the right to vote after a 70 year battle women finaly emerged victorious with the passing of the 19th amendment.
  • The Emergency Quata

    The Emergency quata act had been proposed several times before but never made it through intell 1921 the reason for passing the act
  • Immgration Act

    The immigration act of 1924 was a united states federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could admitted from any country.
  • Televison

    John Logie Baird was one of half a dozen men properly credited with inventing television, and unlike his competitors his television was basically constructed as a hobby, without substantial underwriting until after he demonstrated that his principles worked
  • Lack Thursday

    Consequent market crash of 1929 triggered a complete overhual of market regulation of the U.S securties industry.
  • Black Thursday

    The most catastrophic stock marcket crashes in the history of the united states it was because of this day that the roaring twenty's came to a halt.
  • Hoover Dam

    Is concrete and is on the border between Arizona and Nevada. It's construction was the resuilt of a massive effort involving thousands of workersand cost over one hundered lives. And when they where building the dam the workers got paid with fake money not real money.
  • Gi Bill of Rights

    The service men read just ment act act also known as the Gi Bill of Rights was a law provided a range of benefits for returning home from ww2.
  • Frisbee Invented

    New England Collage student invented the frisbee and became very famous.
  • Internet

    The first website was just text on a screen the world wide web would not come on line until 1993.
  • Computer

    It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today
  • 21st Amendment

    In st louis at the anheuser busch brewery 30,00 people stormed a motomotorcade of beer laden trucks twenty blocks long less than a year later the 21st amendment in 1933 president roosvelt signed a ploclaimed ending prohibition.