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A new wave of attacks began begin on the sale of liqour led by anti saloon league and driven by reaction to urban growth, as well as the rise of evangelical protestanism and its view of saloon culture as corupt and ungodly.
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After the United States entered World War 1 President Woodrow Wilson instituited temporary wartime prohibition in order to save grain for producing food
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Congress submitted the 18th amendment which banned the manufactured, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors for state ratification.
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Congress put forth the National Prohibition Act, which provided guidelines for the federal enforcement of Prohibition. Championed by Representative Andrew Volstead of Minnesota, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the legislation was more commonly known as the Volstead Act.
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18th amendment went into effect a year later, by which no fewer than 33 states had already encated their own prohibition legislation.
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Costs for law enforcement, jails and prisons spiraled upward, support for prohibition was warning by the end of the 1920s.
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corresponding rise in gang violence, including the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929, in which several men dressed as policemen (and believed to be have associated with Capone) shot and killed a group of men in an enemy gang.
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Franklin D Roosevelt defeated the incumbent President Herbert Hoover who once said prohibition ''the great social and economic experiment noble in motive and far reaching in purpose.''
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the Great Depression by 1932, creating jobs and revenue by legalizing the liquor industry had an undeniable appeal. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president that year on a platform calling for Prohibition’s repeal, and easily won victory over the incumbent President Herbert Hoover which victory means the end of prohibition.
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Utah provided the 36th and final necessary vote for ratification. Though a few states continued to prohibit alcohol after Prohibition’s end.