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Telephone
The invention of the telephone is the culmination of work done by many individuals. The development of the modern electrical telephone involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. Telephone have changed the way we communicate still today. -
Car
Karl Benz patented the three-wheeled Motor Car in 1886. It was the first true, modern automobile.Benz eventually built a car company that still exists today as the Daimler Group. The car was used to transport items. -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West. Migrants were forced to deal with poor working conditions and competition for living space, as well as widespread racism and prejudice. -
Prohibition 18th Admendment
The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. During prohibition, it is estimated that alcohol consumption and alcohol related deaths declined dramatically.The amendment drove the lucrative alcohol business underground, giving rise to a large and pervasive black market. -
19th Amendment
19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. -
Frisbee Invention
used recreationally and competitively for throwing and catching, for example, in flying disc games. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while spinning. The term Frisbee, often used to generically describe all flying discs, is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company. -
Emergency Quota Act
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 1890.The act did not apply to countries with bilateral agreements with the US, or to Asian countries. -
Immigration Act 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was 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. -
Black Thursday
Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 11% at the open in very heavy volume, precipitating the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt repeatedly blamed Hoover for the Depression and worsening economy. Roosevelt promised recovery with a New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt united all wings of his party, avoided divisive cultural issues, and brought in a leading southern conservative as his running mate, House Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas. -
Economy Act of 1933
The act cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans. The act was intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States. Roosevelt submitted legislation to Congress which would cut $500 million from the $3.6 billion federal budget by eliminating government agencies, reducing the pay of civilian and military federal workers, and slashing veterans' benefits by 50 percent. -
21st amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution had ushered in a period known as Prohibition, during which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal. Passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 was the crowning achievement of the temperance movement. The 21st amendment over ruled the 18th amendment. -
Computer
Konrad Zuse built the world's first program-controlled computer. Despite certain mechanical engineering problems it had all the basic ingredients of modern machines. This lead many inventors to the next generation of computers. -
Radio
Nikola Tesla and Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi went head-to-head in what would become the race to invent the radio.In 1900, the U.S. Patent Office granted Tesla patents 645,576 and 649,621, the fundamental design of the Tesla coils, on March 20 and May 15 respectively. Tesla's radio patents gave him ownership over one of the key necessities in radio communications. -
Hoover Dam
Construction within the strict timeframe proved an immense challenge, as the crew bored into carbon monoxide-choked tunnels and dangled from heights of 800 feet to clear canyon walls. The largest dam in the world at the time of its completion in 1935, this National Historic Landmark stores enough water in Lake Mead to irrigate 2 million acres and serves as a popular tourist destination -
GI Bill of Rights
was 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, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least one-hundred twenty days and had not been dishonorably disch -
Television
Television changed how Americans in the 1950s saw their political system and in so doing changed politics itself. As televisions became a standard household appliance around the country, political campaigns started resembling the era's commercial campaigns, with cartoon characters, catchy jingles and personal interaction with ordinary people. -
Internet
MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers. Shortly thereafter, computer scientists developed the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data that would later become one of the major building blocks of the Internet.
