World History Group Project

By natalieg1

  • The Volstead Act-passed to ban alcohol

  • The Circle-drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor

  • The League of Nations was Established-create peace across the world

  • The 18th Amendment-declare the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.

  • Black Baseball Team Owners Formed Their Own League

  • 19th Amendment passed - women can now vote

  • The First Commercially Licensed Radio Station Began Broadcasting Live Results of the Presidential Election

  • Advances in Aviation-airplanes to become a mainstream way to travel

  • The Purple Gang Trial- went to trial for bootlegging and highjacking

  • Black Thursday-start of the stock market crash

  • The Dust Bowls Begin-drought hit twenty-three states across the U.S.

  • Economy Hits Rock Bottom-the economy would reach rock bottom after a 27% shrink

  • The First Hundred Days- fifteen laws are introduced rapidly to start tackling the Great Depression

  • First Soil Erosion Camp-The Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp in Clayton County

  • Jobs are Created-Four million construction jobs were created by the Civil Works Administration

  • The 21st Amendment-ratified to repeal prohibition

  • Worst Drought Ever-covering more than seventy-five percent of the country, and affecting twenty-seven states

  • Black Sunday-The worst dust storm hit the U.S.

  • Emergency Relief Appropriation Act- provides five hundred twenty-five million dollars for drought relief

  • End of Great Depression- The economy started to grow again this year

  • Brown v. Board of Education-The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the integration of public schools after this case

  • Vietnam is Split-The Geneva Accords establish North and South Vietnam

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat-Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man

  • Troops to South Vietnam-President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and four hundred Green Berets to South Vietnam

  • The Civil Rights Act-The act banned discrimination based on anything in public facilities

  • U.S. Aircraft Bomb Vietnam-U.S. aircraft bomb Haiphong Harbor and North Vietnamese airfields

  • The Voting Rights Act-This act made it possible for African-American people to vote

  • More Troops to Vietnam- fifty thousand more ground troops to be sent to Vietnam, increasing the draft to 35,000 each month

  • Troops in Vietnam Rise-U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to four hundred thousand

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated-King was assassinated in Memphis on a balcony