Prohibition

From 1920-1933 enough important people agreed that alcohol should be prohibited to make it happen. However instead of keeping citizens more under control, the law only made people more desperate for alcohol. People that got to be called bootleggers set up illegal shops where people could buy alcohol at higher prices. The locations where this business happened came to be known as speakeasies. The original purpose was to prevent Americans from consuming alcohol, but the plan backfired badly.


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Dust Bowl

Sand blew over the southern plains, over a time span of a decade.

 

 

Living conditions were so bad many people were forced to go elsewhere

This is the Area of the southern plains, the area most affected by the Dust Bowl.

 

 

 

           The dust clouded the sky making everyday tasks, like driving to a destination difficult

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The Dust Bowl was when dust blew over the Southern Plains for almost a decade. It made living conditions horrendous. Children had trouble breathing meanwhile farmers watched as their crops were blown away right in front of their eyes. It went on during the 1930s. The time also came with a long period of drought. Farmers hoped for rain everyday but didn't get it for ten years.