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Car
An automobile is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. -
Telephone
The telephone is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds. -
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound. -
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. -
The Great Migration Act
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established Prohibition in the United States. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Emergency Quota Act
The 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 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 was 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 -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States on Wall Street. -
Black Thursday
This is the Thursday before the notorius, Black Tuesday, and on this date the stock market began to fall. -
21st Amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. -
F.D.R.
F.D.R., was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. -
1933
The state of the economy was up up because since there were so many people out at war, a lot of jobs opened up for minorities. Also, the demand for supplies, weapons, munitions and more in the war created a lot of business for companies who manufacture those products. -
Hoover Dam Constructed
The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. -
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. -
G.I. Bill of Right
The G.I. Bill, was an omnibus law that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one year of unemployment compensation. -
Frisbee
A frisbee is a disc-shaped glider that is generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 cm in diameter, with a lip. -
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide.