5. World War I and the Great Depression

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1929-33&nbsp;- More than 13 million people are unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

5. World War I and the Great Depression

Student: Daniel Felipe Trejo Lopez Grade: 8-3

1920&nbsp;- Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquor outlawed. The Prohibition era sees a mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home- produced alcohol and gangsterism. The Wall Street crash of 1929 sparked the Great Depression

1924&nbsp;- Congress gives indigenous people right to citizenship.

1933&nbsp;- President Franklin D Roosevelt launches "New Deal" recovery programmer which includes major public works. Sale of alcohol resumes.

1920&nbsp;- Women given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.

1917-18&nbsp;- US intervenes in World War I, but rejects membership of League of Nations in its aftermath.

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