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Woodrow Wilson
Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. He was a famous leader during the Progressive movement. -
Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company begins the first automobile assembly line to produce the Model T. Henry Ford pays his line workers $5 a day, believing that higher wages would lead to greater and better worker productivity and loyalty -
"Sussex Pledge"
Germany issues the “Sussex Pledge” after a U-Boat sinks another passenger ship, the French liner Sussex, without warning. The German government promises not to sink any more merchant ships without prior warning and without time for passengers and crew to abandon ship. -
Women Get the Right to Vote
Voting rights for women was passed on June 4th, but ratified on August 18th. The 19th amendment guarantees voting rights to all women in the country. -
Warren G.Harding
He was the 29th president of the United States. Harding's term began March 4th and he served until his death. Many scandalss took place under Harding's administration. -
Emergency Quota Act
The Emergency Quota Act limited the number of immigrants from any given country into the US. This law lasted three years under Harding's administration. -
Teapot Dome
Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair. This begins what comes to be known as the Teapot Dome scandals. -
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States. Before his Presidency, he was a Vermont lawyer. He later became the govener of Massachusetts. -
President Harding Dies
President Warren Harding died in San Francisco, California, while on a speaking tour. His death was most likely caused by a heart attack. It turned out that Harding's “Journey of Knowledge” would in fact revitalize the Republican Party before and after his death. -
Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
Charles Lindbergh took off on the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. This was where he departed to go on his trans-Atlantic flight to Paris. The 3,500 mile flight took thirty-three and one half-hours. -
"The Jazz Singer"
"The Jazz Singer" was the first talkie starring Al Jolson. "The Jazz Singer" was a silent silent movie with very little synchronized musical numbers and a little sentences of spoken words. -
Kellogg-Braind Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact promised that war would not be used as a solution to resolving international differences. This pact was also sometimes called the "Pact of Paris" because Paris is where this was signed. -
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President. He was a professional mining engineer before becoming President. He served from 1929-1933. Hoover was considered a "great humanitarian" that helped Europe during and after WWI. He was appointed head of the Food Administration by Wilson after the US entered the war. -
Agricultural Marketing Act
The Agricultural Marketing Act was passed in 1929. It establised a Federal Farm Board that helped to balance and stabilize the agricultural industry. The act also helped to stabilize prices of agriculture. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression not only hit hard in America, but the entire world. It was the most dramatic and long lasting economic depression in history of the Western industrial world. The depression started when the stock market crashed in New York in October of 1929. -
The Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam is located in Navada. The construction of the Hoover Dam began in 1930 and it was not finished until 1936. The Hoover Dam is also known as "Boulder Dam". It is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. The Hoover Dam was the largest dam built of its time. -
Amelia Earhart flies across Atlantic Ocean
Amelia's first trip across the Atlantic took roughly 20 hours to complete. Her success of being the first female to fly across the Atlantic was celebrated in New York City. She ended up writing a book called "20 Hrs., 40 Min" about her first trip across the Atlantic. Earnhart along with copilot Frederick J. Noonan, tried to fly around the world, but her plane disappeared near Howland Island in the South Pacific on July 2, 1937. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the people of America regain faith after the Great Depression struck. He brought hope and led the people with his famous speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Roosevelt became sick with poliomyelitis at the age of 39. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act provided general welfare to the public in the US by age benefets. It helped to improve public health, unemployment compensation laws, establish a Social Security Board, raise revenue, and for other purposes. -
FDR Gets Re- Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt gets re-elected by defeatingAlfred Landon, winning re-election to a second term. Popular vote (60.8%).
