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"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." W. C. Fields
Main Points:
•Volstead Act.
•Temperance movements.
•Rum running.
•In place until 1933 in the USA (Ends in the early 1920s in Canada).
•Creates mobs and gangs (Al Capone).
Summary:
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and 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. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933.
- Prohibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was outlawed.
- It was a time characterized by speakeasies, glamor, and gangsters and a period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law.
•Volstead Act.
•Temperance movements.
•Rum running.
•In place until 1933 in the USA (Ends in the early 1920s in Canada).
•Creates mobs and gangs (Al Capone).
Summary:
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and 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. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933.