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Time line for 1920s and Prohibition

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  • The Woman’s Crusade (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union)

    Women advocating for the usage against alcohol in Visitation Bands to protest saloons and petition drug stores who filled prescriptions.

  • Anti-Saloon League

    one of the first modern political movements in the United States

  • The talk of the Eighteenth Amendment

    The amendment provides legal provisions brought about by the Prohibition Era of the United States. Was ratified in 36 states

  • The Volstead Act

    prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and helped/ is connected to the Eighteenth amendment

  • Meeting of League of Nations

    The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. In a final vote, the United States Senate again votes against joining the League.

  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage.

  • The Great Depression starts

    the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply.

  • Gang Violence

    By this time gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States.

  • The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    in the streets of Chicago, Al Capone has seven of Bugs Moran's men murdered. This era was known for its gang violence

  • Twenty- First Amendment

    Ended the prohibition on alcohol