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PROHIBITION BEGINS
By the beginning of the 20th century, many states had already created state laws banning alcohol. On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Exactly one year later, this Amendment went into affect, making the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal and beginning Prohibition in the United States. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
In the early 20th centry large oil reserves were discovered at Elk Hills, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming. In 1912 President William Taft decided that this government owned land and its oil reserves should be set aside for the use of the United States Navy. -
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE GETS ELECTED
On November 4, 1924, Calvin Coolidge was elected President of the United States. Vice President Coolidge had assumed the office of the presidency the year before after President Warren Harding died -
PRESIDENT HOOVER GETS ELECTED
He was president during part of the time of the Depression.
he was an orphan by the time he was 8 years old. -
BLACK TUESDAY
October 29th, 1929. This is the date of the most famous stock market crash in history. Stocks lost 13% of their value on Black Tuesday. The date is considered the beginning of the Great Depression -
DUST BOWL YEARS
It was a period of time where alot of dust had collected and it was just sworming aroung everywhere. The dust would bust into peoples homes and cause them to be sick and have trouble breatheing because of all of the debree -
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DUST BOWL YEARS
It was a period of time where alot of dust had collected and it was just sworming aroung everywhere. The dust would bust into peoples homes and cause them to be sick and have trouble breatheing because of all of the debree -
Hayley-smooth Tariff act
passed by the U.S. Congress; it brought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. President Hoover desired a limited upward revision of tariff rates with general increases on farm products and adjustment of a few industrial rates. A congressional joint committee, however, in compromising the differences between a high Senate tariff bill and a higher House tariff bill -
FRANKLIN D. ROSEVELT WAS ELECTED
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."He was elected four different times for president. -
PROHIBITION ENDS
Prohibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was outlawed. And after it began it ended -
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
president hoover singed the act of this at about 3:30, -
TENNESSE VALLEY AUTHORITY
pretty much just a building that was government and it had something to do with the damn or waterway
