The Temperance Movement was focussed on a number of things. The primary factor was the protection of the family. Men spent their spare time in saloons instead of looking after their families. Money...
Between the end of WWI and the beginning of the Great Depression....unsure of the exact years, but I would guess 1918-1932.
Look up Roaring 20s and Bootleggers.
Following pressure from temperance groups, the Prohibition of Alcohol law was passed.People started drinking in speakeasies. Eventually most Americans ignored the law. In 1933 the government got rid...
In 1839 Congress established the Agricultural Division within the Patent Office and allotted $1,000 for "the collection of agricultural statistics and other agricultural purposes." In 1849 the Patent...
It was Helen Keller. When Helen Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired about HachikÅ, the famed Akitadog that had died in 1935. She told a Japanese person that she would...