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Prohibition
the act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storage in barrels and bottles, transportation, sale, possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Passing the prohibition act helped make the world a cleaner and safer place because too many people drank.
There were bootleggers and speakeasies that went around the law and did it illegally and made it a problem. -
19th Amendment
When the U.S was founded, female citizens didn't have the same rights of men including voting rights. The 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution gave women the right to vote.
women were being heard and starting to get their way.
Since things were more open for women the power they had got out of control. -
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History
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Emergency Quota System
A national quota system on the amount of incoming immigrants established by US congress, curbing legal immigration
There were so many immigrants coming to the US looking for jobs.
Immigrants had nowhere to go which meant they could have been homeless, and poor. -
Race Records
Record companies were convinced African American artists would be popular with consumer market.
Introduced people to new music and a new style.
Competition caused conflict between races and artists. -
St Valentine's Day Massacre
7 men were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen with Al Capone considered to be associated with the murders.
Led to organized crimes.
Made places unsafe and crime could be pinned on anybody. Death rate increased. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese were completely prohibited from immigrating.
Canadians were too afraid that Chinese would take over their jobs.
Started a war. -
Scopes Trial ( Monkey Trial )
John T Scopes, a biology teacher, tried for teaching darwinism in a Dayton Tennessee Public School. He argued that academic freedom was being violated and that the legislature had a religious preference. Scopes was convicted.
Led him to question beliefs and try to make a change.
After trial his beliefs still could have been questioned and someone could have kept his beliefs going. -
Liquid Rockets
rocket with an engine that uses propellants in liquid form. Helped the flight of vehicles.
New technology helping develop the U.S.
Supplies made it hard to keep going. -
Sacco and Vanzeti
Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists who advocated to overthrow the government arrested and prosecuted for murder and robbery. It was widely believed that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their political beliefs.
Thought they could get away with immigration.
More crime and blame being thrown to just anyone weakening government. -
Factory / Man Made Materials and Appliances
Automobile, steel, rubber, glass, and housing industries are in recession foreshadowing The Great Depression.
Supply-in-demand
There were not enough factory/man man materials. -
Iron Lung Machine
machine enabling a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost.
Helping save a lot of lives and decrease death rate.
Time consuming and not a could cause worse damage. -
Hoover President
ran on a slogan “a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage,” is elected crushing Catholic Democrat Smith to maintain Republican -
Stock Market Crash
A great decline in the US stock market values which contributed to the Great Depression.
Helped exchange stocks and made processes quicker.
If there was a crash (which it was) would take the US a long time to get back to how they used to be. (stable) -
New York Stock Exchange
first stock market is opened in the US
helped speed stock exchange process up.
caused long term problems for the future. -
Bootlegging and Gambling
people were illegally making, selling, possessing, and consuming alcoholic drinks.
making world not so safe place and causing more crime.
led to deaths of many people. -
Star Spangled Banner
became the national anthem of the US.
unified the country.
Not many people cared for anthem and became un unified. -
21st Amendment Passes
21st Amendment Passes: repealed the 18th amendment ending prohibition of alcohol.
End of prohibition made citizens happy because it gave them what they wanted.
Made the world a not so safe place anymore because alcohol was legal. -
Dust Bowl
period of severe dust storms / droughts and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion.
Farmers stopped taking care of their crops.
Them not taking care of crops and other things made crops wither and collect “dust”. -
Neutrality Act
designed to keep the United States out of possible European War by banning shipment of materials and weapons to belligerent countries and discouraged travel by American citizens by specifying what they did at their own risk.
Trying to stay neutral and not get in anymore conflict.
Started conflicts with other countries by not getting involved.
