18th Amendment is ratified when Nebraska becomes 36th state to bar the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes”
Wartime Prohibition Act takes effect
Congress passes the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote
the first day after wartime prohibition started.
Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the National Prohibition Act
The United States goes dry, shutting down the country’s fifth-largest industry.
The Wall Street crash begins, ushering in the Great Depression.