Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
But the short-lived ban on alcohol production and sale, known as Prohibition, would come to be remembered as causing more harm than good. ... alcohol consumption remains a controversial issue in ...
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] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
Many state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment but did not ban the consumption of alcohol in most households. [2] By 1916, 23 of 48 states had already passed laws against saloons, some even banning the manufacture of alcohol. [5]
On December 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, voiding the Volstead Act and restoring control of alcohol to the states. [29] All states either made alcohol legal, or passed control over alcohol production and consumption to the counties and provinces they comprise.
The amendment banned production, sale and transportation of liquor; but consumption was allowed. One year after ratification, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition began.
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
The ratification of the 21 st amendment to the US constitution ended a nearly 14-year nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol that is widely considered to have been a ...
When alcoholic beverages were first banned under the Volstead Act in 1919, the United States government had little idea of the severity of the consequences. [1] It was first thought that a ban on alcohol would increase the moral character of society, but a ban on alcohol had vast unintended consequences. [2]