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The Downward Slide

In 1929 the stock market crashed and sent the nation spinning into a major depression. Over the next few years, businesses and banks across the nation closed and sent unemployment to unprecedented heights. The wet propagandists used the economic troubles as a focal point of their repeal. Wets blamed Prohibition for making the depression worse. They claimed it took away badly needed jobs and deprived the government of revenue that could have been gotten.....

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