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1920's Prohibition
The consumption of alcohol in the U.S. was 7 gallons per capita per year. -
1920s and Prohibition
American Temperance Society had 2,220 local chapters and 170,000 members. -
1920s and prohibition
Consumption of alcohol in the U.S. had been lowered to 3 gallons of alcohol per year per capita. -
1920s and Prohibition
There were more saloons than schools, churches or libraries in the United States: one per 300 citizens. -
1920s and Prohibition
Senate and House passed resolutions with the language of the 18th Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification. -
1920s and Prohibition
The following states ratified the 18th Amendment: Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky, N. Dakota, S. Carolina, Maryland, Montana, Texas, Delaware, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida. Connecticut voted against ratification -
1920s and Prohibition
National Prohibition Party nominated Aaron S. Watkins (Ohio) for President; he received 188,685 votes. -
1920s and Prohibition
the 18th Amendment had already been ratified, New Jersey added its ratification vote on March 9, becoming the 48th of 48 states to take a position on the Amendment, and the 46th state to vote for ratification. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Black Thursday kicked off the stock market crash of 1929. Stock prices immediately fell 11 percent. Wall Street bankers bought stocks, so only 2 percent was lost by the time the market closed. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
The economy shrank 6.4 percent. The unemployment rate rose to 15.9 percent. Prices fell another 9.3 percent. People began to suffer the worst effects of the Great Depression. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Hoover signed the Revenue Act of 1932. It increased the top income tax rate to 63 percent. He wanted to reduce the federal deficit. Hoover believed it would also restore confidence. Instead, higher taxes worsened the Depression. -
1920s and Prohibition
21st Amendment passed, repealing the 18th Amendment and prohibition. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure. The Farm Credit Act of 1933 establishes a local bank and sets up local credit associations. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act, which allows him to take up to 140 million acres of federally-owned land out of the public domain and establish grazing districts that will be carefully monitored. One of many New Deal efforts to heal the damage done to the land by overuse, the program is able to arrest the deterioration but cannot undo the damage that has already been done. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Black Sunday. The worst “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl occurs, causing extensive damage -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
The hottest summer on record began. Eight states experienced temperatures at 110 degrees or greater. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
The extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in shelterbelts, and other conservation methods has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the amount of soil blowing. However, the drought continues. -
Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Hitler conquered France and bombed London. U.S. began sending arms to Britain. Congress reinstated the military draft. -
1920s and Prohibition
National Prohibition Party nominated Claude A. Watson (California) for President; he received 74,735 votes -
1960s and Public Protests
Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States. His margin of victory over Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon is just over 100,000 votes. Kennedy wins 300 Electoral College votes to Nixon’s 219. -
1960s and Public Protests
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president the same day. -
1960s and Public Protests
Hundreds of students at the University of California, Berkeley spontaneously surround a police car as it attempts to remove a political activist for engaging in political advocacy on campus. Roughly 3,000 students will join the 32-hour protest marking the beginning of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. -
1960s and Public Protests
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act outlaws discrimination in public facilities, such as parks, and in public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants, and it prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. -
1960s and Public Protests
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Tax Reduction Act lowering income tax rates from a range of 20–91% to 14–70%. Corporate rates are reduced from 52% to 48%. -
1960s and Public Protests
Students at Columbia University seize several campus buildings to protest the university’s involvement with the Institute for Defense Analysis—a Defense Department think tank—and university plans to build a gym on a park in a neighboring Black community. The protestors will be removed from the buildings on April 30th after a violent battle with the police. -
1960s and Public Protests
Astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, fulfilling President John Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
1960s and Public Protests
Thousands of protestors converge on the Democratic National Convention to protest the war in Vietnam. Violent confrontations between the protestors and police lead to thousands of arrests. Republican nominee Richard Nixon will take advantage of the disorder in Chicago in the upcoming presidential campaign and promise to restore law and order to America. -
1960s and Public Protests
Three members of the Weathermen, a radical political organization growing out of the Students for a Democratic Society, are killed when the bomb they are constructing in their Greenwich Village townhouse explodes. -
1960s and Public Protests
In Flood v. Kuhn, the United States Supreme Court rules that, due to baseball’s “unique place in our American heritage,” the nation’s antitrust laws do not apply. Curt Flood’s challenge to baseball’s reserve clause is rejected.