Prohibition

1920´s and prohibition

  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment
    The 18th amendment is the amendment to the Constitution that outlawed the sale and distribution of alcohol.
  • women were allowed to vote

    women were allowed to vote
    the amendment passed for women to be able to vote.
  • Prohibition era started

    Prohibition era started
    The law that made alcohol illegal.
  • league of nations

    league of nations
    league of nations is established.
  • wall st bombing

    wall st bombing
    In New York there was a car bomb that killed almost 60 people and hundreds of people were injured
  • New Jersey

    New Jersey
    New jersey added its ratification vote on March 9th.
  • Ella Alexander Boole

    Ella Alexander Boole
    Ella Alexander Boole became president of WCTU, serving until 1933.
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh
    Charles flies of the Atlantic
  • great depression

    great depression
    stock markets dropped almost all over the world
  • prohibition era ends

    prohibition era ends
    eventually the government gave in because too many people were breaking the law.