Amendment+XXI

=__**AMENDMENT XXI**__= By:Noah and Gaelle

Amendment XXI was proposed on Febuary 20,1933 and ratified December 5 of 1933 by 36 states.

This amendment,which is called the Repeal of national prohibition, repealed the eighteenth amendment which made it illegal to make,transport, or sell alcoholic beverages.Large numbers of Americans were not willing to accept the law.Some people began to make beer and luiquor at home. The law became harder and harder to enforce. So they passed the 21st amendment to repeal the national prohibition and gave the U.S the right to determine acohol laws for their own state.

There were alot of things going on in the U.S around 1933. The stock market crash in 1929 devestated the economy and was the beginnging of the Great Depression, a tradgety that placed milions of Americans out of work. The New Deal was a series of ecomonic programs in the U.S between 1933 and 1938. They were passed by Congress during President Franklin Roosevelts first term. May of 1933 the Tennessee Valley Authority was set up to help develop the Tenessee Valley area. The TVA built dams to help control floods and soil erosion and worked to help farming and industry grow. Another event that happend around Amendment XXI was the social security act. The purpose of the securities act is to make sure that buyers of sercurities get accurate and complete information before they invest. Also in1933 a man named Joe Zangara attempted to assasinate Presedent Franklin Roosavelt but instead kills Chicago mayo Anton Cermak and wounded three others.

Although many things happened in the U.S around this time, but alot of things also happend around the world. For example, in 1933 Hitler became chancellor, or prime minister of germany. In Cuba Gerando Machado is forced step down as president during " August Revolution".

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