Major Events in U.S. History - Part 2
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1. The Constitution was amended to permit taxing income from any source, and to allow the popular election of Senators; the Federal Reserve Act was passed. 1914
2. The Constitution was amended to guarantee women the right to vote; Prohibition began (the sale and transport of alcohol was made illegal). 1865
3. The American Civil War began. 1918
4. World War I ended. 1861
5. World War I began. 1929
6. The Social Security Act was passed. 1890
7. Prohibition ended (the sale and transport of alcohol was again declared to be legal). 1935
8. The American Civil War ended; the Constitution was amended to prohibit slavery; the Reconstruction Era began. 1913
9. U.S. soldiers massacred Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. 1917
10. The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia. 1877
11. The Spanish-American War began and ended; the U.S. annexed Hawaii. 1920
12. The Reconstruction Era ended. 1898
13. The U.S. entered World War I. 1867
14. The New York stock market crashed, beginning a long economic downturn known as the Great Depression. 1933



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