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In 1920, Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor.
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Roy Olmstead bootlegged alcohol while serving as police lieutenant. By 1920, Roy Olmstead had become "King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers."
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William McCoy, a Florida skipper, pioneered the “rum-running” trade by sailing a schooner loaded with 1500 cases of liquor from Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas to Savannah and pocketing $15,000 in profits from just one trip.
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The 18th Amendment brought the end of the distribution of intoxicating liquors. It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and officially began on January 17, 1920.
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In 1922, Frank Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams.
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In 1924, four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold.
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In 1926 Alphonse 'Al' Capone is blamed for murder of prosecuter, Billy McSwiggin.
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In 1928, the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan, goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking.
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When the stock market crashed Wall Street went into a panic. Many investors were lost. America delved into a dark time, where no one really had any money.
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By 1929 gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States.
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A sever drought was brought to the Great Plains as well as the Midwest in 1930
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Huge dust storms began showing up and creating absolute havoc. Many families suffered.
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America spent years in this dark time, consumer spending and investing dropped. This caused steep declines in industrial output. 15 million Americans were laid off as a result of this crash.
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Enforcing the Prohibition was difficult, people often got away with it and the technology was not really able to track down the Liquor manufacturers. So, in early 1933, Congress decided to adopt a new amendment, the 21st amendment to be exact. The 21st amendment was ratified, thus ending the Prohibition.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which repealed Prohibition, is ratified on December 5, 1933.
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35 million acres of farmland were rendered useless by the massive onslaught of dust and wind tearing apart the soil. Another 125 million acres were on the verge of becoming useless, this is about three quarters the size of Texas.
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Income is provided to the elderly, blind and disabled thanks to the Social Security Act. They received their money from payroll taxes and the Social Security Trust Fund.
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By the end of the year, the heat waves experienced across the nation had killed 1,693 people, and while trying to keep cool, 3,500 more people drowned.
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This year, President Roosevelt had the difficult task of having to manage the debt, but also try to keep the economy out of the depression. In an attempt to relieve the country’s debt, he cut back spending on the New Deal programs, which ultimately pushed the economy back into the depression. In the end, after a $5 billion relief program was enacted by Congress, the economy grew by 5.1%. unemployment 14.30%
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The economy started to grow again this year, eventually bringing the country out of the Great Depression. However, unemployment rates were still extremely high.
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At the end of the Second World War, despite its devastating effects, the United States would emerge as the only economic superpower in the world.
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42 year old Rosa Parks took a seat at the back of the bus. Segregation laws back then were heavy but she complied with them, a white man got on the bus and the driver asked Rosa to move seats. When Rosa denied she was arrested, thus igniting outrage and leading the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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After the event with Rosa Parks, people decided to boycott the transportation system resulting in a 381 day boycott. Eventually the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating unconstitutional.
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President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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By 1957, the Viet Cong and other opponents of Diem’s repressive regime began fighting back with attacks on government officials and other targets, and by 1959 they had begun engaging the South Vietnamese army in firefights.
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By 1962, the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam had reached some 9,000 troops, compared with fewer than 800 during the 1950s.
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By 1962, the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam had reached some 9,000 troops, compared with fewer than 800 during the 1950s.
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Led by Martin Luther King Jr., people took a peaceful march on Washington, where MLK gave his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech.
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On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 DRV forces under General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year), a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam
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Between July 1966 and December 1973, more than 503,000 U.S. military personnel deserted, and a robust anti-war movement among American forces spawned violent protests, killings and mass incarcerations of personnel stationed in Vietnam as well as within the United States.