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1920s

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  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    Replaced alcohol taxes

  • Sheppard Bone-Dry Act

    Sheppard Bone-Dry Act
    Banned alcohol in Washington D.C.

  • 18th Amendment Ratified

    18th Amendment Ratified
    The 18th amendment established the prohibition of alcholic beverages in the U.S. by declaring a ban on manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

  • National Prohibiton Act

    National Prohibiton Act
    Also known as the Volstead Act was passed. It was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment.

  • Butler Act passed

    Butler Act passed
    ATennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin (Evolution).

  • Scopes charged

    Scopes charged
    John T. Scopes charged for violating the Butler Act

  • Scopes Trial

    Scopes Trial
    1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. This was the date that the court decided Scopes was guilty and fined $100.