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The Prohibition Act was in effect to ban alcohol. It was illegal to obtain, sell, and drink alcohol of any kind.
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The Nineteenth Amendment gave women suffrage.
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The very first Miss America pageant occured on this day in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Due to low farm profits that didn't allow farmers enough money to pay off their debt, and the Great Depression in which people could no longer buy good as fast as they were being manuractured, the Stock Market crashed.