history: development of the USA 1910-1929

16th January 1920

Eighteenth amendment to the constitution

March 1921

Warren Harding becomes president

Prohibition

Period of American history where selling alcohol was outlawed

Anti-saloon League

Organisation that pressured for prohibition

Bootleggers

People who continued to distribute alcohol

Moonshine

Homemade(illegal alcohol)

Corruption

Dishonest conduct by those in power, invovolving bribery

Teapot dome

biggest scandal where politicians leased the governments land to oil companies for money

1921- John Kramer

Appointed as prohibition commissioner

1924

Congress begins investigating corruption in the Harding administration

100,000 illegal bars in New York in what year?

1925

1927

Albert fall imprisoned for the teapot dome scandal

February 1929

Saint Valentine’s Day massacre

1927-1931

277 Gangland murders went unpunished

1931

Capone sent to prison for Tax evasion