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Went into affect, making the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal.
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Alcoholic beverages were banned. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th. Certain types of alcoholic beverages were allowed to manufactured and sold.
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. A rock formation in Wyoming that looked like a teapot.
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On November 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was elected President of the United States. Calvin Coolidge was born in Vermont.
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The flight of Lindbergh and his plane take off.
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Lindbergh and his plane take off. They arrive in LeBourget Field, Paris 33.5 hours later.
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Lindbergh arrives in LeBourget Field, Paris 33.5 hours later.
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Born August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa.
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The most famous stock market crash.
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It raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
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Winds reaching 60 miles per hour whipped the dirt into gigantic clouds as high as 1,000 feet blocking the sun.
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A severe drought ravaged an area twice the size of Pennsylvania covering parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.
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A group of World War 1 veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of a bounus promised them by Congress.
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The only President to be elected four times.
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A massive salvage operation destined to become the most popular experiment of the New Deal.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority was a government corporation established as part of the New Deal to improve the economy of the state.
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Was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices.
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Sale of certain kinds of alcoholic beverages and the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, etc.
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Legislation that established a national old-age pension system in the U.S. Dissatisfied with the government response to the Great Depression, about five million people joined “Townsend clubs” to support the plan of Francis E. Townsend (1867–1960) to demand a $200 monthly pension for everyone over the age of 60.
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The land is able to be farmed again.
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Three Stuka dive bombers appeared in the skies of Poland. They destroyed the detonating wires leading to a bridge that the Poles were preparing to destroy to stop the German advance. War had begun.
