Important Events In The 1920's

As the 1920s in America passed, many important and life-changing events occurred throughout the brief ten years. The first major event was on August 18, 1920, when Amendment XIX was added to the United States Constitution. This Amendment permits any U.S. citizen to vote, and forbids the denial of the right to vote on the basis of sex. The nineteenth amendment, overruling the fourteenth amendment, gave women the right to vote. Having passed this amendment, women now had more political freedom and power in the US. Two years after the nineteenth amendment passed, another great change happened. On September 21, 1922, Congress passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, which quickly raised tariff commitments to protect American markets for their manufactures.

Even women, who were not allowed in saloons before, started drinking. Many different ways were used to sell, and transport liquor in secret. Big boats and trucks would bring it from place to place, and people would hide it in their clothes, boots, hallow canes, false books, and coconut

The sale of medical alcohol in drugstores grew to large numbers, because patients would come and buy the medicine constantly. People all over the United States would also started drinking at home by buying “a brick of wine” or “mix and serve alcohol” or just by making beer or wine with a recipe in their own kitchens. A few years after the act emerged, several federal agents, throughout the Prohibition Era, went undercover in speak-easies, smugglers’ houses, and on beer trucks, boats, and planes. These agents confiscated all alcohol they found and arrested the people who were involved. Many people, such as George Remus and Al Capone became famous and rich for just being bootleggers. Prohibition caused a kind of disorder nationally, with a great amount of organized crime, not only in bootleggers, but also in more serious crimes like shootings, which were the result of obsessive drinking. The passing of this act also told the US that making something illegal, like making liquor illegal, can have the opposite effect on the citizens, which included that the people had more of a desire to break the law and cause dangerous