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- Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages [1]
- Prohibition | Definition, History, Eighteenth Amendment, Repeal . . .
Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment
- About Prohibition | US House of Representatives: History, Art Archives
Congress passed the 18th Amendment—the constitutional amendment known as Prohibition—on December 18, 1917 But before it could be added to the Constitution, three-fourths of the states needed to ratify—or approve—the measure
- Prohibition and Its Effects | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Prohibition Amendment had profound consequences: it made brewing and distilling illegal, expanded state and federal government, inspired new forms of sociability between men and women, and suppressed elements of immigrant and working-class culture
- Prohibition: A Case Study of Progressive Reform
Herbert Hoover called prohibition a "noble experiment," but the effort to regulate people's behavior soon ran into trouble Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult
- The Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition - LII Legal Information . . .
The National Prohibition Act was popularly known as the Volstead Act because Representative Andrew John Volstead of Minnesota, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sponsored and promoted the Act Shortly after the Twenty-First Amendment ’s adoption, Congress repealed federal prohibition laws in various districts and territories
- The Prohibition Era in US History - Students of History
A definition and summary of the Prohibition Era in US History, including the years it took place, speakeasies, bootleggers, and more
- Roots of Prohibition | Prohibition | Ken Burns | PBS
The story of the rise, rule, and fall of prohibition and the entire era it encompassed Learn more about the temperance movement and more on this page
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