Eighteenth Amendment
Americannoun
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Many supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment also supported, a year later, the Nineteenth Amendment, an equally controversial measure, which established women’s right to vote.
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
Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment in January 1919, with provisions to take effect one year later.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
As the Twenty-First Amendment, which would repeal the Eighteenth Amendment establishing Prohibition, moved towards ratification, this law authorized the manufacture of 3.2 percent beer and levied a tax on it.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Few laws or acts of Congress have ever been so unpopular with so many people as the Eighteenth Amendment.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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