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



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