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Prohibition Begins
Exactly one year after the 18th amendment was ratified, it was put into effect. This made it illegal to manufacture, sale, and transport all alcohol in the United States, beginning Prohibition. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome was a scandal of an oil reserve that took place under President Harding. The control of the oil reserves was switched from the Navy, where President Wilson had put them aside, to the Department of the Interior. Secretary of the Inferior, Albert B. Fall then leased the reserves without competitive bidding to Edward L. Doheny, an oil operator of Elk Hills California. These transactions became Senate investigation. -
Presdient Coolidge is elected
Calvin Coolidge is elected President of the United States, though he had assumed the position the year before after President Harding had died. He won under the Republican party, and the electoral votes were in his favor, 382-136-13 with Davis and La Follette, respectively. -
The Spirit of St. Louis leaves New York
The pilot of the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh leaves New York for Paris on this day. If he makes the trip, he will be the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. -
The Spirit of St. Louis lands in Paris
Lindbergh lands in Paris after what is said to be about a 33 1/2 hour flight. Being succesful in his trip, Charles Lindbergh is now the first pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Presdient Hoover is elected
In this election of 1928, republican nominee Herbert Hoover was elected President. Hoover faced republican Charles Curtis, and democrats Alfred E. SMith and Joseph Robinson. The electoral votes were 444 for the rupublicans and 87 for the democrats. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is the nickname for the day that the New York Stock Exchange crashed in the United States. Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the Great Depression, a time of economic hardship for Americans. -
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the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl describes the driest regions of the plains during the 1930's. Southwest Kansas, Southeastern Colorado, and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma about cover the Dust Bowl. Although the dust bowl was only describing a certain area, the entire countryw as affected by the dust storms that swept over the dust bowl, destroying topsoil and crops. -
Hawley-Smoot Tarrif Act
The act was passed by the U.S. Congress in order to bring the U.S. tarriff to the highest protective level yet. Though, the act ended up bringing retaliatory tarriffs from foreign countries and intensififed the depression. -
Bonus Army March
The Bonus Army March was a march of veterans to the Capitol in Washington. The veterans were homeless, hungry, and unemplyed and they marched to demand their money. They desperately needed the money and had been promised it two years before. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected.
President Roosevelt is elected in the Democratic party facing Herbert Hoover as republican. This was a crucial time for Amerixca as the Great Depression was setting in and the effects of the Stock Market crash were being felt across the United States. -
Civilian Conservations Corps
The CCC was a program designed to help men aging from 18-25 with unemployment. These CCC camps were set up all over the United States, and had jobs provided such as building public parks, restocking rivers with fish, and many other varieties of jobs. The pay was 30 dollars a month, and 22 dolalrs got sent home to family members. byt 1934, 3,000,000 men had served in the CCC. -
Tennesse Valley Authority
The TVA is a government owned corporation that provides electricity in America. The TVA also has Dams built that help with flood control, irrigation, and navigation. Also, a hydro-electric plant helps provide generated elctricity to parts of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina,Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. -
Prohibition Ends
Prohibiton officially ended with the ratification of the 21st amenment. This amendment canceled out the 18th amendment and made alcohol legal. -
FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is an independent agency in the federal government that works to regulate banks in the United States. It currently regulates about 5,300 banks, and when the Glass-Steagall Act was passed it began its operations. -
Works Progress Administration
The WPA was established to help put people back to work, and try to get out of the Great Depression. The passing of the Emerency Relief Appropriation Act was the start of the WPA. -
Social Security Act
Congress passed the Social Security Act in mid 1935. This act established a system for benefits to those workers of old-age, workers who suffered industrial accidents, aid for single mothers and their children, insurance for the unemplyed, and aid for the blind and physically challenged. -
Beginning of World War II
The attack of the Germans on Poland begins World War II. Other European Countries and later the United States felt they had to join in too. The result of this attack was 6 long years of war.
