HyperDoc Timeline- 1920s, Prohibition, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War
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Also known as the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance. One of the most influential "dry" groups advocating abstinence from alcohol. Established by clergymen in 1826.
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Caroline Amelia Nation was born November 26, 1846. She was noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet or a bat.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution gave Black people equal protection under the law.
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The 15th Amendment granted Black American men the right to vote.
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WCTU gave the temperance movement its most powerful voice. They originally proposed the ban of alcohol as a method for preventing abuse from alcoholic husbands. They spent many years building the movement though education and local and state laws.
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In their state constitution, Kansas put a ban on alcohol.
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The Eighteenth Amendment, from Wayne Wheeler, passed in the U.S. Congress chambers in December 1917. Later ratified by three-fourths of the states in January 1919.
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Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment was marked official August 18, 1920 with Tennessee's "yes" vote.
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President Woodrow Wilson presented the "Fourteen Points" which was a plan to end and prevent war forever. It was adopted by diplomats and began the construct of the League of Nations. First executive council meeting was January 16, 1920. At the highest point it had 58 member states.
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Herbert Hoover assumes office as the U.S. President. He doesn't have a good reputation due to his laissez-faire approach to economics.
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The stock market begins to crash. Stocks drop 11%, but Wall Street bankers bought them so only 2% dropped total.
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Black Tuesday hits the nation, with another 12% loss when 16 million shares are traded. The panic is worsened by the banks who decided to intervene this time.
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Droughts hits 23 states across the US, affecting those from the mid-Atlantic region to the Mississippi River. As well as a struggling economy, the land was unable to be used to grow crops, pushing many farmers out of their land.
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Taxes on 900 different imports are raised when President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Its aim was to support farmers, but hundreds of other goods ended up having tariffs imposed. This impacted international trade which began to fall, since other countries reacted to these tariffs.
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Bank of the United States, fails, causing the biggest failure in a bank at the time. It was the 4th biggest bank in the world. When the bank collapsed, it had more than $200 million in deposits, which made it the largest bank failure in the history of the United States and was one of the most hard-hitting events during the Great Depression.
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Al Capone was sent to jail by the Untouchables for tax evasion in 1932.
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President Hoover signs the Revenue Act of 1932, which increases the top income tax rate to 63%. Believing it would restore confidence and reduce the federal deficit, the taxes being pushed to a higher rate would actually make the depression worse.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, a 1932 presidential candidate, gives his “New Deal” speech to the public to reveal his plans for economic recovery.
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This act amended the Volstead Act. It allowed the manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beer and wines.
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President Roosevelt creates the Emergency Banking Act, launching the New Deal. In order to prevent even more terrible failures, the act closed all banks in the United States.
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This was at the federal level, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment. However, it did allow prohibition to be maintained at state/local levels.
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The worst dust storm hits the United States. In order to help farmers learn how to work sustainably, President Roosevelt introduces the Soil Conservation Act.
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu had a profound effect on American involvement in Vietnam. The French were defeated by Viet Minh, which ended the involvement of the French in the Vietnam War.
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A Federal District Court then ruled that segregation on the buses was illegal. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision, Browder v. Gayle, in November 1956, handing NAACP lawyers a major victory.
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A quarter of a million black and white people — more than twice as many as had been expected — marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in a show of unity, racial harmony and support for the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress and the American people in a nationally televised speech. He announced the voting rights legislation he would be introducing. "Their cause must be our cause, too," he said, referring to civil rights activists.
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President John F. Kennedy had introduced the bill before his assassination. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed it into law on July 2, 1964. It achieved many of the aims of a Reconstruction-era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was passed but soon overturned.
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Sailing in the international waters of the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats confronted and attacked the destroyer USS Maddox. The attack was driven off with assistance from carrier-based aircraft.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not address all the legal and illegal methods whites had used to systematically deny blacks the right to vote in state and local elections. Activists presented Governor George Wallace with a petition asking him to remove obstacles to voter registration. People saw the heroes of the civil rights movement on the national news, and support for the Voting Rights Act increased.
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The first major battle between American and Vietnamese forces. The Battle of Ia Drang Valley was claimed as a victory by both sides offered important lessons for each army.