Timeline

1900–1919 ∼ Migration of the Farm Population

Pure Food and Drug Act sets standards for food and drug control (1906) / Mass migration of workers across the nation depletes the farm population (1915–1919) / African Americans comprise more than 20% of the workers in the Chicago stockyards (1917) / Eighteenth Amendment outlawing the sale of alcoholic beverages begins prohibition era (1919)

MILESTONES: Formation of the Ford Motor Company (1903) • Wright brothers’ gasoline engine aircraft successfully flies at Kitty Hawk (1903) • World War I provides new roles and opportunities for women (1917–1919) • Great flu epidemic begins in U.S. (1918)

1920–1929 ∼ Beginning the Farming Revolution

Farm tractor begins the farming revolution (1920s) / For the first time more Americans live in urban than in rural areas (1920) / Pig Stand in Dallas is the first drive-in restaurant (1921) / Japanese and Filipino farm workers strike against Hawaiian plantation owners (1920 and 1924)

MILESTONES: Women’s right to vote enacted...