January 16, 2015 January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment Is Ratified, Prohibition of Alcohol Becomes Law January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment Is Ratified, Prohibition of Alcohol Becomes Law The ...

watches agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition. On January 16, 1919, the United States went legally "dry" when the 36th state ratified the 18th Amendment.

The Congress has evidently reflected accurately public sentiment of the national prohibition act to enforce the Eighteenth amendment, then to supplemental prohibition act to strengthen it ...

When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January ... and mouse nature of Prohibition enforcement. While the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation ...

Twenty years ago what prophet would have cared to stake his reputation on a prediction that men then living would survive to see prohibition ... shape with the eighteenth amendment.

The Eighteenth ... country's history, Prohibition rode to easy victory in an alliance with other elements of the Progressive Movement in the early twentieth century. The Sixteenth Amendment ...

Prohibition, under the 18th Amendment, prevented the legal manufacture, sale & distribution of alcoholic beverages in the US ...

and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...