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Temperance movements begin supporting abstinence from alcohol.
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1920's and prohibition
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First prohibition law is passed
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13 states execute the prohibition legislation
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Kansas is the first state to add the prohibition into the state constitution
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Anti-saloon league is formed
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War Time Prohibition Act is passed to save grain during WWI
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18th amendment is approved by 36 states and is enforced on a federal level
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Dust Bowl and Great Depression Begin
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Great Depression and Dust Bowl
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Herbert Hoover gave presidential nomination acceptance speech, and discussed the need to end the prohibition
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FSRC Creation
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6 million pigs are slaughtered to stabilize price
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Franklin Roosevelt takes office
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allows the manufacture and sale of certain alcohol
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Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
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Civilian Conservation Corps opens the first soil erosion control camp
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prohibition is repealed with 21st amendment
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ERA Acts and Creation of WPA
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Shelter belt project begins
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Frazier-Lemke far bankruptcy Act
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Great Depression ends
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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1960's and public protests
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1957
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250,000 people take part in the March on Washington for jobs and freedom
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Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Malcolm X is assassinated
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Selma Montgomery March
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President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968, AKA Fair Housing Act