Eighteenth Amendment
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In 1932, Hoover, the reluctant Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
Three Republican Presidents—Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Hoover—held office during Prohibition, and all of them were willing, if not eager, to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
The Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting alcohol, and the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, received their final impetus due to the war effort.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Their political pressure culminated in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
To enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act—named for the congressman who introduced it—was passed on October 28, 1919.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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