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May 25, 2024 · In 1920, the United States embarked on a bold social experiment known as Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, banned the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol nationwide.
Jun 6, 2024 · This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Eighteenth Amendment, detailing its historical context, implementation, impact, and eventual repeal, highlighting the complexities and consequences of Prohibition in American history.
3 days ago · Works Cited. Acker, Caroline Jean. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Johns Hopkins, 2002 (CH, Feb’03, 40-3470). Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History, ed. by Mack P. Holt. Berg, 2006. Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. by David M. Fahey and Jon S. Miller.
May 17, 2024 · Eighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol. It was repealed in 1933, following the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 6, 2024 · The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents more... less... "The lesson relates to the power of Congress to amend the Constitution as specified in Article V, and also relates to Amendment 18, which banned alcohol, and to Amendment 21 which repealed national Prohibition.
3 days ago · Mark Lawrence Schrad’s pathbreaking study Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition provides a positive look at prohibition. Schrad’s earlier study, The Political Power of Bad Ideas, considers American prohibition within a global context.
4 days ago · Hames is especially strong when describing the role of alcohol in European colonisation – arguing that ‘the production, trade, consumption, and regulation of alcohol fostered European success in world trade [and] helped solidify the new colonial identities of both the colonists and the indigenous’ (p. 60).
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