Prohibition of Drugs: Pro and Con
The history of U.S. social and legal policy in regard to psychoactive and intoxicating drug use has been characterized by periodic shifts, strong ideological presuppo...
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Prohibition of Alcohol
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibited the "manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors." The amendment, pas...
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Prohibition of Alcohol
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibited the "manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors." The amendment, pas...
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Prohibition
Prohibition, which lasted from 1919 to 1933, attempted to eliminate the consumption of alcoholic beverages but instead created a legacy of bootleggers, flappers, and speakeasies. Widesprea...
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The Roots of Prohibition Prohibition
The Temperance Movement Gathers Steam
Prohibition Becomes a National Issue
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Final Toast
Getting Around the Law
Crime in America
The We...
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Prohibition, for any substance, is the banning of a certain type of good. In the early 19th century, a law was passed known as the Volstead Act, which banned alcohol, was made to enforce the already ...
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In the early 1900's, many people began to think that alcoholism had gotten out of control. People (mostly women) felt that alcohol was used for the wrong reasons, and that it should be banned in the ...
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Prohibition or the `Noble Experiment' as it was known, was the banning of the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. `Intoxicating liqour' as it was known was defined by the Volstea...
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Prohibition in the United States
In the United States, this was done by means of the Eighteenth Amendment to the national Constitution (ratified January 16, 1919) and the Volstead Act
(passed Octobe...
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National prohibition of alcohol (1920-33)--the "noble experiment"--was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and im...
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Why was prohibition introduced?
When Herbert Hoover introduced prohibition in 1919 he called it "the noble experiment", presenting it as a law that hoped to curb sin and poverty across America. In fa...
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Prohibition of Drugs: Pro and Con
Prohibition of Alcohol
Prohibition
Prohibition
