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The Hamill brothers
Al, Jim, and Curt were well known in east Texas.The Hamills have been drilling for over two months. They’ve gone past 330ms. Another 30, and they’ll have to quit. They hear a bubbling.Oil that’s been contained for 160 million years shoots up in a geyser 60m high.The Hamills had been hoping for 50 barrels a day. They’ll soon be pumping out over 80,000. Overnight the backers of the rig are nearly $40m richer. Petrol makes them mobile. They changed the world forever, The World stared to run on car. -
Theodore Roosevelt
appointed Roosevelt as a member of the Civil Service Commission of which he later became president. This office he retained until 1895 when he undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City. In 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. While in this office he actively prepared for the Cuban War, which he saw was coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry. -
Car For The Great Multitude (Henry ford)
Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903, proclaiming, "I will build a car for the great multitude." In October 1908, he did so, offering the Model T for $950. In the Day and month unknown.
Model T's nineteen years of production, its price dipped as low as $280. Nearly 15,500,000 were sold in the United States alone. The Model T heralds the beginning of the Motor Age; the car evolved from luxury item for the well-to-do to essential transportation for the ordinary man. -
Los Angeles Aqueduct
<a href='' >http://wsoweb.ladwp.com/Aqueduct/historyoflaa/</a>In 1913 the City of Los Angeles completed construction of the first Los Angeles Aqueduct. From the time that Los Angeles was first founded in 1769, the small settlement had depended upon its own river for water. The 11 families that settled in the area dammed up the Los Angeles River and built canals to irrigate fields. But as the city grew, those in charge of supplying the growing population with water knew the small meandering river could not meet future demands. They need the aqueduct to live -
Great migration
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In 1914, 90 percent of African Americans lived in the states of the former Confederacy, where so-called Jim Crow statutes had legalized the separation of Americans by race. But between 1910 and 1920, the percentage of African Americans living in the South began to fall. By 1930, more than 21.2 percent of African Americans lived outside of the South -
World war 1
War war 1 or as it was first called the great war was one of the most important wars in history! We had new technology that was shaping the nation, We had the tanks, Airplanes, Gass attack. Which meant more loses and that the war would last a lot longer. The Great war went on for four years before they sign In 1919, The Treaty of Versailles officially ended the War. But the Treaty was brutal towards Germany requiring that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war; -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act was drafted by Brigadier General Hugh Johnson after the United States entered the First World War. The law authorized President Woodrow Wilson to raise a volunteer infantry force of not more than four divisions. All males between the ages of 21 and 30 were required to register for military service. By 12th September 1918, 23,908,566 men had registered. Around 4,000,000 men were ultimately drafted into the armed services. Of these, 50 per cent served overseas during the -
The red scare of 1919
Americans knew about Communism, because Communists had been at large in the country for years, often associated with radical labor organizations such as the IWW, and Communist Party meetings were held in New York and other major cities more or less openly. (See Warren Beatty’s film Reds for an interesting story about the radical politics of that era.) Americans accepted and wanted to preserve the American way of doing things, which meant capitalism, private ownership of business, free-market. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred. By 1933 Prohibition was repealed. Some States, however, continued Prohibition within their own jurisdictions. -
The roaring Twenties
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The Twenties were also known as a time of revolution in manners and morals, when young men, and especially young women, threw off many of the social restrictions of the Victorian era and began conducting themselves in ways that scandalized the older generations. Young women liberated themselves in everything from hairstyles and clothing to deportment and public behavior, smoking cigarettes and drinking from flasks of illegal bootleg whiskey and bathtub gin.
