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Timeline 1920's, Great depression, 1960's

By Kerriganandriley

  • Prohibition starts

    Wartime prohibition passed. Anti-German feelings transferred to being against beer. Prohibition advocates argued that the liquor industry was an unpatriotic use of resources, especially grain.

  • 18th amendent

    Senate and House passed resolutions with the language of the 18th Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification.
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    ratification of the 18th amendment

    48 of states ratified the 18th Amendment. Rhode Island and Connecticut were the only states to vote against it.

  • Enforcement of the 18th amendment

    Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, establishing procedures and powers to enforce prohibition under the 18th Amendment.

  • The end of ratification

    18th Amendment ratified, establishing prohibition as the law of the land.

  • the era of prohibition

    Prohibition Era begins
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    1920s and Prohibition

  • 19th amendment

    the 19th Amendment, granting the vote to women, became law.

  • Herbert Hoover becomes president

  • dow reaches closing record

  • Smoot-Hawley traffic act

  • Reconstruction Finance Corperation

  • 21st amendment

    21st Amendment took effect, repealing the 18th Amendment and thus prohibition.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office

  • Gold Reserve Act

  • Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act

  • Hottest summer on record

  • Hitler Conquers France

  • Dow closes

  • JFK becomes president

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    1960's and public protests

  • The other american is published

  • Big tax cuts

  • Kennedy Assassination

  • More tax cuts

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Free Speech Movement

  • Medicare and Medicade

  • Minimum wage increase

  • Columbia Protest