Social

Prohibition

1830

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcoholic beverages. It was the product of a temperance movement that began in the 1830s. The movement grew in the Progressive Era, when social problems such as poverty and drunkenness gained public attention

immigration

1890

The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s