America's Founding Primary Source Documents:
1919 - Amendment XVIII in the Bill of Rights -
Prohibition = Manufacture, transport or sale of Alcohol in U.S. is illegal (see 1933 for reversal)
William Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-eighth U.S. President
(1913-1921)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
18th Amendment - prohibiting making or selling alcohol.
Education: Higher (College)
600,000 students enrolled in college 1919-1920.
"College and university enrollments rose steadily during the pre-World War I years and then
surged after the war."
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 156,
160 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see
1920 for next event...
Food: Kitchen Aid introduces a standing electric
mixer (its design remains little changed today)
Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook.
p 103
Photography:
Edward S. Curtis
(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)
Science:
Beta-Carotene is crystallized from carrots at the
University of Wisconsin and its vitamin A activity noted.
"Spanish Flu"
Between 1918 and 1919, a deadly Influenza strain kills over 30 million people world wide and 600,000 Americans.
Returning American troops from World War I were bringing the flu
back home.
Technology:
Welding
The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919.
