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18th Amendment Ratified
The manufacturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor is prohibited. Along with importing or exporting from/to the United States.
The 18th Amendment was a trial of prohibition to alcohol and other intoxicating liquors. The prohibition led to organized crimes that were against the prohibition. And other groups of people who supported the prohibition -
The rise of Crime
Johnny Torrio had become a Rackets Boss. He was located in Brooklyn, New York, and was expanding the new Crime empire that had begun in the early 1920s by James Colosimo (Or "Big James"). Torrio turned his rackets up to Al Capone -
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Prohibition
A nationwide ban on importing, selling, transporting, or manufacturing intoxicating Liquor. However, it did not ban the consumption, production of ones, or private possession. -
Calvin Coolidge in Office
The time period of Calvin Coolidge as president. He is the 30th president, taking over after the death of Warren G. He was born july 4th 1872, and is the only president to be born on independence day. He ran as vice president alongside Warren G. He was the first vice president allowed to sit in on cabinet meetings. He worked on cutting taxes and federal spending, along with signing the immigration act. His presidentcy lasted until 1928 -
Al Capone
Al Capone was one of the most famous organized crime members during the prohibition era back in 1925. He made a fortune off of illegal distillation and selling alcohol. -
Herbert Hoover in Office
Herbet hoover was president from 1929-1933 -
Stock market crash
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Great depression era
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
raised tariffs on imported goods, which ended up creating a trade war between the US and Europe. making the global economics even worse of a downturn. Hoover reluctantly signed the act. -
St. Valentines Day Massacre
A mass murder that occurred in Chicago. Consisting of Al Capone's gang dressing up as policemen and attacking in the hope of controlling Illegal liquor traffic. This massacre led to a symbolization of the violence that took place in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. -
Orange County Archives
Sheriff officers dumping illegal alcohol found in California, -
Warner Brothers
A movie that was based on Capone Rise as a well known boss called "Scarface: The Shame of Nation" -
Glass-steagall act of 1932
An act approved by Hoover to limit the activity from commercial banks to hopefully stabilize the banking sector -
Reconstruction Fiance Corporation (RFC)
was a government funded system that would lend banks or other financial institutions that didn't have proper Federal Reserve Credits -
Franklin Roosevelt in Office
He was elected in November of 1932, however, was not officially in office until March 1933 -
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The great dust bowl
a variety of dust storms that affected most of the central united states -
South Dakota Dust Storm
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Twenty-First Amendment ratified
Repeals the 18th Amendment. Allowing the transport or importing of intoxicating liquors throughout states in the United States. Also allowing the delivery, use or possession of liqour -
Great plains dust storm
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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
The act was issued by the Congress and was put in act to prevent threats of soil erosion and overproduction. This act was passed as a response to another act that was passed by the supreme court that had seemed unconstitutional -
The creation of NRCS
The Natural Resources Conservation Services was created as a way of recognizing the wastes of soil or other farming materials in farming or grazing. Created under the name of Soil Conservation Service until it was later renamed in 1994 to the current name it is today -
Black Sunday
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Civil Rights Movements
A time period of social movements and protests surrounded segregation and other civil freedoms -
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Trials of banning segregation in schools
(1954) Brown v. Board- Established that Segregation in schools was unconstitutional
(1967) Loving v. Virginia- Established that Laws around preventing Interracial marriage goes against equal rights and the 14th amendment
(1964) Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States-gave the US Congress the ability to force private businesses to abide by the laws of the Civil Rights Movements -
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Rosa Parks Boycott
was a 13 month Boycott that protested against segregation on buses. This was started by Rosa Parks when she refused to move to the back of the bus after a white person told her too. -
Emmet Till's Murder
He was a 14 year old who was accused of harassing a white woman, leading to him being abducted, brutally tortured and eventually killed. This lead him to become a main icon in the Civil rights movement and persecution of African Americans -
John F Kennedy's assasination
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bay of pigs invasion
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Civil Rights Act
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Gulf of Tonkin incident