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1920-1930
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Eighteenth Amendment leads to Prohibition Era
The Prohibition Act was in effect to ban alcohol. It was illegal to obtain, sell, and drink alcohol of any kind. -
Ninteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment gave women suffrage. -
First Miss America Pageant
The very first Miss America pageant occured on this day in Atlantic City, New Jersey. -
"The Charleston" Becomes Popular
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Coco Chanel Creates the Popular "Little Black Dress"
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Stock Market Crash
Due to low farm profits that didn't allow farmers enough money to pay off their debt, and the Great Depression in which people could no longer buy good as fast as they were being manuractured, the Stock Market crashed.