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Twenty-first Amendment
Prohibition ended with the passage of Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Food riots in Minneapolis
In February 1931, the first of many “food riots” across the country broke out when desperate, hungry, and unemployed men and women looted a grocery store in Minneapolis.
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Dorothea Lange documented migrants
Dorothea Lange, hired as a photographer for the Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration), documented the plight of migrant workers in California. Her images were intended to promote New Deal relief programs and became emblematic of the Great Depression.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act ruled unconstitutional
In Butler v. United States, the Supreme Court declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act (passed in 1933 to reduce overproduction by paying farmers to be inactive) unconstitutional.
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act
The Federal Home Loan Bank Act combatted home foreclosures and stimulated construction by establishing banks to supplement home loan lending resources.
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Schechter Poultry Corporation v. the United States
In Schechter Poultry Corporation v. the United States, the Supreme Court ruled the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional and held that the government could not determine national codes, wages, or hours in local plants.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election by beating out Kansas Republican Alfred Landon.
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3.2 million unemployed
By 1930, more than 3.2 million people were unemployed, up from 1.5 million before the Stock Marked Crash of October 1929
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Bleak outlook for American labor
In 1932, George Barnett, a prominent economist and president of the American Economics Association, forecasted a bleak future for organized labor: “The changes, occupational and technological, which checked the advance of unionism in the last decade, appear likely to continue in the same direction.”