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The Rise to World Power

1920: The manufacture, sale, import and export of were prohibited by the Amendment. This indirectly led to the rise of organized as typified by Chicago's . The Twenty-first Amendment repealed this "" in 1933. 1924: The American Immigration Act limited immigration from countries whose immigrants already represented 2% of the total U.S. population. Thus, the massive influx of Europeans was seriously through this system of . What's more, Asians and citizens of India were prohibited from immigrating altogether. 1929: On October 29, also known as , stock prices on collapsed (s'effondrer). The events in the United States added to a worldwide depression, later called the , which put millions of people out of work across the world throughout the 1930s. 1933: Franklin D. became President, and started a policy with the goals of what historians call the 3 Rs, of giving Relief to the unemployed and badly hurt farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and promoting Recovery of the economy during the Great Depression.

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