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18th Amendment
This amendment prohibited the sales of "intoxication beverages" with more than 5% alcohol. This made the licor business become an underground trade controlled by organized-crime groups like gangsters. -
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Roaring 20's
A period caracterized by the birth of Mass Culture, the Jazz Age, the "New woman", the prohibition of alcohol sales, and a "Cultural Civil War". -
19th Amendment
Amendment that granted women the right to vote. -
Black Thursday
First day of the stock market crash of 1929, the stock marked started falling but the intervention of some banks temporary restored people's confidence and the marked recovered a little. -
Black Tuesday
The stock marked crashed after many people started selling shares out of fear.This event marked the end of an era of prosperity on the U.S. -
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Great Depression
Period that started with the stock market crash of the Black Tuesday and ended when the U.S. joined World War II. More than 9000 banks closed, more than 15 million Americans were unemployed--life was challenging for the average American during these time interval. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under the promise of ending the "hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government" and stopping the economy's downward spiral. -
New Deal
These were the series of actions taken by president Roosevelt on his first 100 days of presidency. By June, 15 major laws had passed and fundamentally reshaped many aspects of American economy. -
Second New Deal
On 1935, Roosevelt launched a second set of federal programs and was reelected on 1936. -
The U.S. declares war on Japan
The Pearl Harbor attack unified the public opinion of American in favor of joining Word War II, soon after declaring war on Japan the rest of the Axis power declared war on the U.S.