Drinking Age By kalikatt Jan 19, 1919 18th Amendment Ratified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Jan 16, 1920 Prohibition-18th Amendment Effective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Jan 1, 1928 National Bar Assoc Proposes Repeal https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/timeline/Timeline-Alcohol-and-Drinking-History-in-America.html Dec 5, 1933 21st Amendment Ratified-Repeal 18th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Dec 15, 1933 21st Amendment Effective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Jan 1, 1934 State Prohibitions = Alcoholism Increase https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/timeline/Timeline-Alcohol-and-Drinking-History-in-America.html Jul 1, 1971 26th Amendment on Voting Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Jul 17, 1984 National Minimum Drinking Age Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act