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The Amendment
The 18th Amendment was passed by Congress-- which illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol-- and was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917. Wayne Wheeler created it. -
New Amendment
In 1919, the amendment was ratified by the three-quarters of the nation's states required to make it constitutional. -
1920s and Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban. On the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. Prohibitionists first attempt to end the trade in alcoholic drinks during the 19th century. -
Scofflaw
four years after Prohibition was first imposed the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold. -
Beer Wars
In 1926 Alphonse 'Al' Capone is blamed for murder of prosecuter, Billy McSwiggin. -
Purple Gang Trial
In 1928, the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan, goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September 4, 1929, and became known worldwide on Black Tuesday, the stock market crash of October 29, -
Why did the Great Depression Occur
The Great Depression began after the stock market crash of October 1929. Which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. -
Great Depression: Who
President Hoover signed it into law in 1930. The law raised U.S. tariffs by an average of 16 percent, in an effort to shield American factories from competition with foreign countries' lower-priced goods. -
What occurred during the Great Depression?
Lasting almost 10 years (from late 1929 until about 1939) and affecting nearly every country in the world, it was marked by steep declines in industrial production and in prices (deflation), mass unemployment, banking panics, and sharp increases in rates of poverty and homelessness. -
National Parole Board
The Congress created the National Parole Board and amended the Probation Act to give officers the responsibility to supervise federal parolees. -
The Dust bowl: Who
The Economic Depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices, and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s -
Where Did The Dust Bowl Occur?
Technically it refers to the Western third of Kansas, southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the Northern two-thirds of the Texas Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico, the Dust Bowl has come to symbolize the hardships of the entire nation during the 1930s. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms. The storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes caused the phenomenon. -
The Black Blizzards
A Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. -
Pigs
Over 6 million young pigs are slaughtered to stabilize prices -
Yearbook of Agriculture
Approximately 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land have essentially been destroyed for crop production 100 million acres now in crops have lost all or most of the topsoil; 125 million acres of land now in crops are rapidly losing topsoil. -
Dust Storms
Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. -
The Rain Storms
In the fall, the rain comes, finally bringing an end to the drought. During the next few years, with the coming of World War II, The Country is pulled out of the Great Depression, and the plains once again become golden with wheat -
The Fall of the Great Depression
Mobilizing the economy for the world war finally cured the depression. Millions of men and women joined the armed forces, and even larger numbers went to work in well-paying defense jobs. World War Two affected the world and the United States profoundly; it continues to influence us even today. -
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American Civil Rights Movement
The American Civil Rights Movement was a political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated. -
The Anti-Vietnam War Movement
The small anti-war movement grew into an unstoppable force, pressuring American leaders to reconsider its commitment. Peace movement leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign aggressors. -
Coup in Saigon
South Vietnam military sets up third government in three months -
The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified
Congress approved the 25th Amendment on July 6, 1965. The states completed ratification by February 10, 1967, and President Lyndon Johnson certified the amendment on February 23, 1967. The first use of the 25th Amendment occurred in 1973 when President Richard Nixon nominated Congressman Gerald R -
Voting Rights act Signed into Law by President Lyndon Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed the law during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. -
U.S. Goes on the Offensive
U.S. troops in Vietnam got permission to go on the offensive. -
Secretary of Defense Resigns
Robert McNamara is ousted following months of increasing conflict with the President and military leaders. McNamara's removal is precipitated by private communications with the President, and public remarks questioning Johnson's policies -
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The Environmental Movement
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Environmental movement focused its attention on pollution and successfully pressured Congress to pass measures to promote cleaner air and water. In the late 1970s, the movement increasingly addressed Environmental. threats created by the disposal of toxic waste