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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.
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919.
18 Οκτ 2024 · The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society’s ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption.
29 Οκτ 2009 · The Prohibition Era began in 1920 when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, went into effect with the...
The Supreme Court held that the Eighteenth Amendment gave the federal government broad power to enforce Prohibition, even with respect to activities conducted within a single state, such as the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means. Most countries that have experimented with the ban have soon lifted it, including the United States.
The Supreme Court held that the Eighteenth Amendment gave the federal government broad power to enforce Prohibition, even with respect to activities conducted within a single state, such as the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages.
