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Timeline: Guide to all the Presidents. History Bookshelf - Presidential Accomplishments. History Bookshelf - Presidential Accomplishments. States by Order of Entry into Union. The table below details when each state joined the union.

States by Order of Entry into Union

Source: Compiled from various sources by the editors. Information Please® Database, © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on States by Order of Entry into Union from Fact Monster: Cuban Missile Crisis. In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to global nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Hoping to correct what he saw as a strategic imbalance with the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev began secretly deploying medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Once operational, these nuclear-armed weapons could have been used on cities and military targets in most of the continental United States. Before this happened, however, U.S. intelligence discovered Khrushchev's brash maneuver. In what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Civil Rights.

Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) Jan. 23 The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.

Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law)

Summer The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a network of civil rights groups that includes CORE and SNCC, launches a massive effort to register black voters during what becomes known as the Freedom Summer. It also sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest—and attempt to unseat—the official all-white Mississippi contingent. July 2 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Aug. 4 (Neshoba Country, Miss.) Civil Rights March on Washington (History, Facts, Martin Luther King Jr.) By Shmuel Ross The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.

Civil Rights March on Washington (History, Facts, Martin Luther King Jr.)

Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. Background 1963 was noted for racial unrest and civil rights demonstrations. Nationwide outrage was sparked by media coverage of police actions in Birmingham, Alabama, where attack dogs and fire hoses were turned against protestors, many of whom were in their early teens or younger. Coalition The March on Washington represented a coalition of several civil rights organizations, all of which generally had different approaches and different agendas. Opposition President Kennedy originally discouraged the march, for fear that it might make the legislature vote against civil rights laws in reaction to a perceived threat.

Prohibition in the United States. Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine brewery during the Prohibition era Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.[1] The dry movement, led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Enabling legislation, known as the Volstead Act, set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Private ownership and consumption of alcohol was not made illegal under federal law; however, in many areas local laws were more strict, with some states banning possession outright.

Prohibition Enforcement Since 1927. (a) The Bureau of Prohibition Act, 1927 Following the hearing before the Senate Committee, Congress, by act of March 3, 1927, known as "the Bureau of Prohibition Act" (44 Stats. 1381) created in the Department of the Treasury two bureaus a Bureau of Customs and a Bureau of Prohibition each under a commissioner; authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint in each bureau one assistant commissioner, two deputy commissioners, one chief clerk, and such other officers and employees as he might deem necessary, and provided that the appointments should be subject to the provisions of the Civil Service laws and the salaries be fixed in accordance with the classification act of 1923.

Prohibition Enforcement Since 1927

From the time of enacting this law until the end of the year 1929, the tedious task of replacing men declared ineligible under the terms was taking place. (b) Changes in Personnel and in Organization (c) Training of Prohibition Agents.