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Interwar years and the Great Depression Topic 15 18th Amendment Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. 19th Amendment • • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 1919 Eighteenth Amendment ratified 1920 Nineteenth Amendment ratified KDKA transmits first commercial radio broadcast 1920-21 Post-war deflation and depression 1921 Federal Highway Act (Phipps Act) Johnson Act – immigration quotas (The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910) Sacco and Vanzetti convicted Sheppard-Towner Act allots federal funds for maternity and paediatric clinics (to states) (Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy Act) 1922 Economic recovery/higher standards of living Federal government ends railroad shop workers and miners strike 1923 Pres. Harding dies; Cooldige takes office Ku Klux Klan activity reaches its peak 1923-24 Government scandals (Teapot Dome) bribery scandal of Harding adm. 1924 Johnson-Reid Act revises immigration quotas to 2% Coolidge elected president 1927 Sacco and Vanizetti executed Lindbergh’s flight The Jazz Singer first sound movie 1928 Stock Market soars Hoover elected president 1929 October 24 – Black Thursday – Stock market crash; beginning of the Great Depression Agricultural Marketing Act 1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff raises rates on imports (raises U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels) 1931 Nine African Americans arrested in Scottsboro affair Hoover declares moratorium on WW I debts and reparations 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation established Roosevelt elected president Revenue Act (raise of corporate, excise and income taxes) 1933 13 mln Americans unemployed March – New Deal Policy is launched by Roosevelt Agricultural Adjustment Act National Industrial Recovery Act Banking Act (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation established) Twentieth and Twenty First Amendments (moves the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933) (repeals the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution) 1934 Share Our Wealth Society started Indian Reorganization Act (restores land to Indian tribes) 1935 Emergency Relief Act (authorization of public work programs) National Labor Relations Act (right to unions) Social Security Act Public Utility Holding Company Act Revenue Act (taxes grow for the wealthy and business) 1936 9 mln unemployed 1937-39 Business recession 1938 10.4 mln unemployed Fair Labor Standards Act (minimum pay) 1939 Social Security amendment adds benefits for spouses and widows September 1 – beginning of World War II 1940 Roosevelt elected (third term) 1941 December 7 – Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor – USA enter the war