1. PRESENTED BY:
LESLI, MOUSSA, NILAXSHI

2. ICONS:
“TEDDY”
ROOSEVELT,
WRIGHT
BROTHERS, FORD
MODEL T
 KODAK INTRODUCES $1 BROWNIE
CAMERAS 1900
 NEWSPAPERS WENT TO 4 COLUMN
TABLOID STYLE 1900
 FIRST NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED 1901
 THE TEDDY BEAR IS INTRODUCED
1902
 FIRST ROSE BOWL GAME PLAYED
1902
 FIRST WORLD SERIES 1903
 FIRST SILENT FILM DEBUTS 1903
 WRIGHT BROTHERS FLY 1903
 WINDSHIELD WIPERS WERE
INVENTED 1903
 FIRST POPULAR AMERICAN FILM
1904

3.  EINSTEIN PROPOSES HIS THEORY
OF RELATIVITY 1905
 SPEED LIMITS SET TO 20MPH 1906
 FIRST RADIO BROADCAST 1906
 PABLO PICASSO INTRODUCES
CUBISM 1907
 FIRST ELECTRIC WASHING
MACHINE 1907
 HENRY FORD PRODUCES MODEL T
1908
 SOS –UNIVERSAL DISTRESS SIGNAL
1908
 NAACP IS FOUNDED 1909
 PLASTIC IS INVENTED 1909
 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 1910
 CHEVROLET ENTERS MARKET TO
COMPETE WITH FORD 1911

4.  TITANIC ON APRIL 15, 1912
 LABOR UNIONS CONTINUED TO
GROW
 EVERY STATE HAD PASSED A
MINIMUM AGE LAW.
 WOMEN WERE ALSO
DETERMINED FOR EQUALITY
 DANCE CRAZES, LISTENING TO
OUR JAZZ TUNES, WEARING
OUR FASHIONS
 FIRST LINE BEGAN IN 1914 AND
IN 1915, THE ONE MILLIONTH
MODEL T ($345) BOWLED OFF
THE ASSEMBLY LINE
 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
AND PROHIBITION IN 1919.
 THE OVER THERE DECADE
MEANT MORE THAN JUST
GUIDING OUR 'BOYS' OVER TO
FIGHT DURING THE WWI
The “Over There” decade

5.  Jim Thorpe, an American Indian,
won gold medals at the Olympics
 Girl Scouts of America were
formed
 Flapper Age.
 ready-to-wear fashion.
 Clothing for men became a bit
more conservative in the 1920s
 This decade began the present
hey-dey for the manufacturing of
cosmetics.

6.  1920 - Fashion 1920s Icons
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable
 1925 - Two Illinois athletes,
Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic
swimmer & movie Tarzan) and Red
Grange (University of Illinois and
Chicago Bears halfback), achieved
unprecedented attention as sport
stars
 1926 - Open warfare between Al
Capone's gang and the rival Dion
O'Banion's gang spread
throughout Chicago and its
suburbs.
 1926 - Air flying companies outbid
the railroads for transporting the
mail
Great Depression

7.  1929 - Stock market crashed
 October 24, 1929 – Black Friday.
You tube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=bgY48AHdVJ0&feature=related
 The Presidents of the 1930s were
Herbert Hoover and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.
 1931 - Congress designated "The
Star Spangled Banner" as the
national anthem.
 1931 - Movie palaces attracted
Depression weary people
 1933 - Albert Einstein immigrated
to the United States
 1935 - Social Security legislation
passed

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Kingwood Library, Kingwood, TX. Retrieved from
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