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1901 |
Ford Motor Company founded
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1908 |
First Ford Model T built
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1913 |
Ford invents assembly Line
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1920 |
KDKA transmits first commercial radio broadcast |
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1921 |
Federal Highway Act |
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1922 - 1923 |
Supreme Court decisions against strikes, child labor laws, and minimum wage laws |
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1923 |
Ku Klux Klan activity peaks |
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1925 |
Scopes trial |
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1927 |
Lindbergh trans-Atlantic flight |
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The Jazz Singer, first movie with sound, released |
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1929 |
Stock Market Crash
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An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.
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