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Congress passes the 18th Amendment
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18th Amendment is ratified when Nebraska becomes 36th state to bar the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes”
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Wartime Prohibition Act takes effect
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Congress passes the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote
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the first day after wartime prohibition started.
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Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the National Prohibition Act
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The United States goes dry, shutting down the country’s fifth-largest industry.
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The Wall Street crash begins, ushering in the Great Depression.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president
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21st Amendment repealing Prohibition is ratified.