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The steel strike started because the steel industry refused to come to an agreement with the union. The workforce could no longer continue the strike and gave into the industry. -
The 18th amendment went into effect, this made it to where there could be no manufacturing or production of alcohol in the US. -
The 19th amendment was the first legal document allowing women to vote. After many protests, the amendment was finally approved into the constitution by vote. -
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote and was not approved until August 18th of 1920. -
The emergency immigration act was and act that was passed to decrease the amount of immigrants in the US. The number of immigrants went from 805,000 down to 309,000. -
The act occurred after a landslide in a presidential election. Taxes were lowered by Republicans. They claimed this was necessary for expansion. -
President Warren Harding of the Republican party dies from a heart attack in San Francisco. This lead Vice President Calvin Coolidge to become President. -
This was also known as the Mellon tax bill. Federal taxes rates were cut and the US Board of Tax Appeals was created. -
The Great Floods occurred in 1927 when the Mississippi was flooded. The flood impacted more than 900,000 people and forced them out of their homes. -
Herbert Hoover of the Republican party won the 1928 presidential election. He later signed an Agricultural Marketing Act in 1929 to stop an ongoing farm crisis. -
The Wall Street Crash or Stock Market Crash occurred in 1929. This is when the Dow declined by almost 13 percent forcing millions of dollars to be lost.