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The 18th Amendment was added to the constitution banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. However, the Amendment did not take effect until January 17th, 1920.
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The failure of the Volstead Act trying to reinforce prohibition also helped lead to the 21st Amendment.
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The actual amendment takes effect beginning the dry nation of no alcohol.
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In 1932 John D. Rockefeller wrote a letter telling about how the 18th Amendment is actually causing more drinking, and more crime.
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Although the amendment was not actually adopted until December 1933
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The 21st Amendment was added to the Constitution which through the 18th Amendment out. So then businesses had to buy their liquoir lisences back,
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By 1966, all states had repealed their state prhibition laws making alcohol legal everywhere.
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Mississippi was the last state to lift the prohibition ban and stop the dry nation.
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Kansas continued to prohibit public bars until 1987, even after all the state prohibition laws had been lifted
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The Cullen-Harrison Act legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% and wine with a similarly low. This became effective on April 7, 1993
