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The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, and went into effect one year later, on January 17, 1920. Prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages within the United States.
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The United States goes dry, shutting down the country’s fifth-largest industry.
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The Soviet Union created a new policy that allowed a mixed economy. More people in the US were happy because they were allowed to own their own businesses.
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Jazz became a big thing in the 1920s. Many people were very happy because the music brought them together.
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After many years of suffrage and fighting, women were allowed to vote. Women voted for better roads and better education for their children.
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Miriam Ferguson was elected for governor of Texas. Nellie Ross was elected governor of Wyoming. This was such a big deal because woman fought to get equal rights for so long and they finally got them.
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There was a new law that was created because of Fundamentalism. Since fundamentalists didn't believe in the theory of evolution, they didn't want it to get taught in school. They got twelve states to ban the teaching of evolution. This made people all over the country mad.
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U.S. Marshals were the principal enforcing agents of the Prohibition laws until the Treasury Department created the Bureau of Prohibition in 1927.
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Amelia Earhart started her attempt at being the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Wall Street crash begins, ushering in the Great Depression.
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Al Capone was the most notorious of the prohibition-era gangsters who made their fortunes from the illegal distillation and sale of alcohol. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president after campaigning, among other things, to end Prohibition.
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Sheriff's deputies dumping illegal alcohol in California, 1932 -
The 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition is ratified. Making alcohol legal again