- Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia
Prohibition was successful in reducing the amount of liquor consumed, cirrhosis death rates, admissions to state mental hospitals for alcoholic psychosis, arrests for public drunkenness, and rates of absenteeism
- Prohibition | Definition, History, Eighteenth Amendment, Repeal . . .
Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment
- Prohibition: Years, Amendment and Definition - HISTORY
The Prohibition Era began in 1920 when the 18th Amendment to the U S Constitution, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, went into effect with the
- Roots of Prohibition | Prohibition | Ken Burns - PBS
The story of the rise, rule, and fall of prohibition and the entire era it encompassed Learn more about the temperance movement and more on this page
- Prohibition: A Case Study of Progressive Reform
By the early 20th century, prohibition was a national movement Prohibition exhibited many of the characteristics of most progressive reforms That is, it was concerned with the moral fabric of society; it was supported primarily by the middle classes; and it was aimed at controlling the "interests" (liquor distillers) and their connections
- Prohibition Era in the United States - World History Edu
Prohibition (1920-1933) banned alcohol, spurred organized crime and speakeasies, and ended with the 21st Amendment's repeal
- Prohibition in the Federal Courts: A Timeline | Federal Judicial Center
From 1920 until 1933, the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned in the United States under the policy known as Prohibition, enshrined in the Eighteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution
- prohibition | Wex | US Law | LII Legal Information Institute
Prohibition may also refer to the time during which alcohol sale and transportation in the United States was illegal Beginning in the mid-19 th century, various groups, such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union , pushed for the prohibition of alcohol at the state and federal level
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