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1920s

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  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    Replaced alcohol taxes
  • Sheppard Bone-Dry Act

    Sheppard Bone-Dry Act

    Banned alcohol in Washington D.C.
  • 18th Amendment Ratified

    18th Amendment Ratified

    The 18th amendment established the prohibition of alcholic beverages in the U.S. by declaring a ban on manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
  • National Prohibiton Act

    National Prohibiton Act

    Also known as the Volstead Act was passed. It was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment.
  • Butler Act passed

    Butler Act passed

    ATennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin (Evolution).
  • Scopes charged

    Scopes charged

    John T. Scopes charged for violating the Butler Act
  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial

    1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. This was the date that the court decided Scopes was guilty and fined $100.