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
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Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.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
Shortly thereafter, Congress passed the Volstead Act, translating the Eighteenth Amendment into an enforceable ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and regulating the scientific and industrial uses of alcohol.
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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