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This amendment prohibited the sales of "intoxication beverages" with more than 5% alcohol. This made the licor business become an underground trade controlled by organized-crime groups like gangsters.
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A period caracterized by the birth of Mass Culture, the Jazz Age, the "New woman", the prohibition of alcohol sales, and a "Cultural Civil War".
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Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
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First day of the stock market crash of 1929, the stock marked started falling but the intervention of some banks temporary restored people's confidence and the marked recovered a little.
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The stock marked crashed after many people started selling shares out of fear.This event marked the end of an era of prosperity on the U.S.
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Period that started with the stock market crash of the Black Tuesday and ended when the U.S. joined World War II. More than 9000 banks closed, more than 15 million Americans were unemployed--life was challenging for the average American during these time interval.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under the promise of ending the "hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government" and stopping the economy's downward spiral.
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These were the series of actions taken by president Roosevelt on his first 100 days of presidency. By June, 15 major laws had passed and fundamentally reshaped many aspects of American economy.
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On 1935, Roosevelt launched a second set of federal programs and was reelected on 1936.
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The Pearl Harbor attack unified the public opinion of American in favor of joining Word War II, soon after declaring war on Japan the rest of the Axis power declared war on the U.S.