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The Stock Market started having problems on October 24, 1929 which was known as black Thursday (Rosenburg). Stock prices fell and people started to sell a lot of their stocks, which made things worse. October 29, 1929 is known as Black Tuesday. It was the worst day in stock market history (Rosenburg). 16.4 million shares of stock were sold that day which was a new record (Rosenburg). After the crash many people had lost their life savings and many businesses were ruined, which also led to many people losing their jobs. The Stock market crash was one of the reasons why the great depression happened. Prohibition was also an important part of the 1920s. Prohibition made the selling, manufacturing, and consumption of alcohol illegal. People thought alcohol was to blame for crime, poverty, divorce, and many other problems (Farshtey). Prohibition was supposed to end many social problems in our country, but instead increased organized crime and never really ended the social problems. Alcohol was available because bootleggers would smuggle alcohol into the United States from Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. The illegal alcohol would be taken to speakeasies which were illegal saloons. They were called speakeasies because you were not supposed to talk about them. Many police officers did not enforce the laws because they were bribed to keep quiet about speakeasies, and many officers were regular customers (Freshet). Prohibition was finally repealed in 1933 because of economic crisis; states wanted the tax money from alcohol sales
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Two of them were the scopes trial and the sacco-vanzetti trial. The Scopes trail came about when John scopes of Dayton, Tennessee admitted to teacher the Theory of Evolution. He, as a high School biology teacher, believed that he could not teach biology without teaching evolution. His trial began on July 10, 1925. When his trial was over with, he was found guilty but only had a one hundred dollar fine and received no jail time. Six days later after eating a very large meal, John Scopes died in his sleep (Linder). The Sacco-Vanzetti trial began on May 21, 1921. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were being charged with the murder of 2 men carrying the payroll from a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts. They had stolen fifteen thousand dollars from the two men. People had believed that they wanted that money for their anarchist campaigns. The main evidence that the prosecutors had against the two men was that they were carrying guns when they were arrested. The trail lasted for about 7 weeks and on July 14, 1921 both men were found guilty and sentenced to death. In 1925 a man who was with Sacco and Vanzetti when the murder happened confessed to being part of murder but the police refused to investigate
Two of them were the scopes trial and the sacco-vanzetti trial. The Scopes trail came about when John scopes of Dayton, Tennessee admitted to teacher the Theory of Evolution. He, as a high School biology teacher, believed that he could not teach biology without teaching evolution. His trial began on July 10, 1925. When his trial was over with, he was found guilty but only had a one hundred dollar fine and received no jail time. Six days later after eating a very large meal, John Scopes died in his sleep (Linder). The Sacco-Vanzetti trial began on May 21, 1921. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were being charged with the murder of 2 men carrying the payroll from a shoe factory in Braintree, Massachusetts. They had stolen fifteen thousand dollars from the two men. People had believed that they wanted that money for their anarchist campaigns. The main evidence that the prosecutors had against the two men was that they were carrying guns when they were arrested. The trail lasted for about 7 weeks and on July 14, 1921 both men were found guilty and sentenced to death. In 1925 a man who was with Sacco and Vanzetti when the murder happened confessed to being part of murder but the police refused to investigate