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Decade - 1900s
This category has questions involving events, social trends, political beliefs, major discoveries, or general information related to the 1900's.
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How did the PRI fulfilled some goals of the revolution but not others?
it accommodated many groups in the Mexican society, including business and military leaders, peasants, and while they were keeping real power in its own hands
What were the 1900s like in England?
it was all about factories and workhouses and 8o percent were working class(poor)
Hardly anyone had enough money to live and people worked all day every day
PS type in Google 1900 England and you will find a great website
What inventions where made in 1900-1920?
The Wright Brothers built and flew the first successful airplane in 1903. Their plane "Flyer" was driven by a light gasoline engine and flew a distance of 2625 feet.
George Eastman came up with a lightweight roll-film Brownie camera.
The Lumiere brothers invented the first film projector. In 1904 they came up with color plates capable of producing a color transparency.
Leo Baekeland developed the first synthetic plastic in 1909 in Belgium. It was called "Bakelite" and it was used to make things from pitchers to radios.
Mary Phelps Jacob designed the first bra made of two handkerchiefs with straps.
US Car manufacturer Henry Ford started mass production with the invention of the moving assembly line.
Marie Curie researched radioactivity with the discovery of the elements polonium and radium.
In 1916, Albert Einstein revolutionized the laws of physics with his special and general theories of relativity.
Harry Brearley mixed steel and chromium to produce an alloy that did not rust. The became stainless steel.
How did rich people live in the 1900s?
Well, they lived in huge places.
They were rich.
They were also known as barons.
What did the state of California do in the early 1900s to help northern California grow?
built a state highway system to connect cities
Why did Russians immigrate to America in 1900s?
Russian Jews were prosecuted during this time, famine, wars over cocaine
Over the years several different reasons have been suggested as the reason the engraving above the front doors uses a "V" rather than a "U". There is not a precise answer to this query, however we are able to make an educated guess based on several sources of information. According to the World Book encyclopedia, U was adopted from the Greek letter Y. The Romans dropped the bottom stroke and wrote the letter as V. This was used for both the consonant sound V and the vowel sound U. Some time around 900 A.D. people began to use V at the beginning of a word and U in the middle of a word. It was during the time between 1400 A.D. and 1600 A.D. that U became the letter commonly used for the vowel sound. There was a Renaissance of the Classical style of architecture in the United States from 1890-1940. William R. Ware, the founder of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, taught a style that he called American Vignola. (Vignola was an Italian architect who codified the standards for Classical Architecture in his work Rules of the Five Orders of Architecture). We own a reprint of Ware's primer American Vignola (729.3 Ware). In the early 1900's, it was common for educated men to be taught both Greek and Latin. Therefore the people involved with the design of this building and many others during this American Renaissance more than likely would have known the Classic Roman alphabet used the symbol V for both U and V. We are not the only library to be a "pvblic" library. Pictures have been found of several other libraries where a V is substituted for a U. While their architectural style does not always match our Classical columns, domes and pediments, most of them were built during this time of American Vignola. So it is accurate to say that we were built during a time when architects and builders were embracing Classic themes. Therefore it is very likely that the engraving reads "Walker Pvblic Library" because it was in accordance to what was popular in the architectural world at the time our library was built. This is also a likely explanation for the architect's decision to design our library in the Classical style. Took Me a while to find this answer MPLS FTW
Where did most people live in the 1900?
In 1900, most people lived in rural areas, with the majority engaged in agriculture and farming. However, the urban population was beginning to grow due to industrialization, as people migrated to cities for job opportunities in factories. This shift marked the beginning of significant urbanization, particularly in countries like the United States and parts of Europe, where cities were rapidly expanding. Overall, while rural living was still predominant, the trend toward urbanization was becoming increasingly evident.
What is the history of homelessness?
People who cannot hold a job, and therefore cannot pay for a home are deemed homeless.
What were the problems in the turn in the urban areas 20th century?
Big crowd congestion, High pollution rates, High Crime tolls, and Highly fastly spread diseases all caused problems for the urban areas at this time.
What are some good things that happened during the 1900's?
The first electric typewriter is invented, still color photography the first animated cartoon is created.
Who was the light skinned black singer with a raspy voice famous in the mid 1900s?
Sounds like it could be Macy Gray
Why are Edwin Chadwick and John Snow famous?
They are famous because Edwin Chadwick published a report on the 'sanitay conditions' in 1842 in regards to the reacuring epidemic of cholora and infectious disease cause by contamination of water by sewage. John Snow is famous for removing the handle of the pump in Broadway Street that was the cause of many deaths and the infamous cholora disease. both Chadwick and Snow proved Pasteurs theory right.
What happened on the day of April 11?
Computer scientist William Tunstall-Pedoe, developer of the search engine True Knowledge, has determined that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day of the 20th Century. His conclusion is based on an estimate of notable births, deaths, and events:
Every day something of significance happens, a person is born who is destined for fame, there is an event in the arts or sports, history is created. With 300 million of these facts fed into the "brain" of True Knowledge, Tunstall-Pedoe's Cambridge company, the computer was asked: "What was the most boring day in the 20th century?"[...]
Nearly five million people are using True Knowledge every month, asking their own questions and contributing factoids and context to improve the quality of search.
Many of these facts include dates. The system has a unique understanding of the importance of the entities in the world which can be calculated as a number, such as events beginning and ending, births, deaths, wars, founding of businesses and the release of publications. So you can find out what happened on a particular day. For example, who was born on May 3, 1983?
"It occurred to us that we are able to objectively measure the importance of every day in history. Some days are highly eventful and on some days far less happens and we can also objectively estimate the importance of these events.
What number century was the 1900s?
20th Century A.D. The 1st century would be 0-99, the 2nd would be 100-199, etc. So the 2th century would be 1900-1999.
The primary goal of the Women's Rights Movement in the early 1900's was to obtain?
The right for enfranchisement (vote)
