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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
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