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| daib0 | 16 Jan 2016, 01:45 AM Post #1 |
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Thursday, January 16, 1919. : Prohibition in the United States takes effect. Prohibition in the United States generally refers to the time between 1920 and 1933 during which the Eighteenth Amendment was in place. The Eighteenth Amendment, forbidding the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes," was passed by Congress and ratified on 16 January 1919. The ensuing Volstead Act, which made provisions for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment, was passed on 28 October 1919. Prohibition failed to enforce sobriety, and the federal and state governments lost billions in tax revenue. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed, and on 5 December 1933 Utah became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the required three-quarters majority of states' approval. This ended national Prohibition; however, some individual states continued to uphold their own temperance laws. Mississippi, for example, was the last state to end Prohibition, doing so only in 1966. This T-shirt was produced by the company Bristle & Co who were advocating repeal of Prohibition. ![]() |
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