The purpose behind the 18th amendment (Prohibition) was pure. Its advocates thought the law would cure the country of alcoholism, family violence, and political corruption. Sounded good in theory, but the actual practice of Prohibition opened up a lot of unintended consequences that weren’t foreseen. In the 13 years Prohibition was alive, a lot of […]
Month: November 2020
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Henry Clay’s gamble: the 1824 U.S. Presidential election
In the early years of America, the position of Secretary of State was seen as the next President in waiting. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were all previously Secretary of State’s before they became President. In the 1824 Presidential Election, John Quincy Adams was the sitting Secretary of State and the presumptive next […]
The high cost to vote: The Ocoee Massacre
Florida, as well as the rest of the southern United States, had been controlled by southern white democrats since the end of the Reconstruction era. The Ku Klux Klan also had a revival in the early 1900s, establishing many new chapters in Florida starting in 1915. When you add together these two factors, Florida was […]
