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an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (on Prohibition) and Nineteenth (on women's suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted.
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a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.
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Bootlegging was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period
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a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
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After struggling with low growth and recession in the late 1920s, Great Britain sinks deeper into a drastic depression. Germany’s industrial production declines as much as the United States’ production. In the United States at this time, the Great Plains suffers a severe drought that lasts several years. Conditions in this region—referred to as the Dust Bowl—worsen when heavy dust storms hit, carrying the soil into the air and creating “black blizzards.”
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including Al Capone's gang in Chicago. It is a difficult task
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A banking panic occurs when people who had deposited their money in banks lose confidence in the security of the banks and withdraw their cash. The United States experiences three more banking panics, in the spring of 1931, in the fall of 1931, and in the fall of 1932. This last panic continues through the winter of 1933.
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Does this by appealing to state and local governments.
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As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow.
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Rises to 23.6 percent and over 10,000 banks have failed since 1929
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Fourteen are reported this year; next year there will be 38.
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To end Prohibition
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he discusses the ills of Prohibition and the need for its end.
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This amendment would end Prohibition.
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closes all banks until they are declared secure by government agencies.
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This legalizes the manufacture and sale of certain alcoholic products. Support for Prohibition continues to wane, and many call for its removal.
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The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely.
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Causes extensive damage.
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the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
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African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger
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six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted to her first day at the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans by four armed federal marshals. They were met with angry mobs shouting their disapproval, and, throughout the day, parents marched in to remove their children from the school as a protest to desegregation.
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protested civil rights abuses and employment discrimination. A crowd of about 250,000 individuals gathered peacefully on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to listen to speeches by civil rights leaders, notably Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, a stronger version of what his predecessor, President Kennedy, had proposed the previous summer before his assassination in November 1963.
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distributde a leaflet saying "No Mississippi Negroes should be fighting in Vietnam for the White man's freedom
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an open letter in the New York Times by the group Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam
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led by SANE and Women Strike for Peace, with 8,000 to 10,000 taking part.
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Veteran Jan Barry Crumb participated in a protest on April 7 called the "Fifth Avenue Peace Parade" in New York City. On May 30 Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D.C.
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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed by a sniper while standing on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.