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Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in 1851, after Neal Dow, the mayor of Portland, gathered thousands of signatures on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law. The law was later repealed in 1856.
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The Civil War as a war between the south and north over slavery.
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The feud between the north and south end, the north are victorous.
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The National Prohibition Party was apart of the Temperance Movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages
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Kansas is the first state to have prohibition in its state constitution.
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The 16th Amendment establishing the Federal Income Tax.
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Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C. to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Pre- Prohibition temperance raid discarding liquor in Topeka, Kansas.
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The War Time Prohibition Act is passed to save grain for the war effort during World War I.
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Ends
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The 18th amendment is ratified by 36 states and goes into effect on the federal level.
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The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act is passed.
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Roy Olmstead bootlegged alcohol while serving as police lieutenant. By 1920, Roy Olmstead had become "King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers."
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Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor.
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Frank Allen Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners when the two groups of officers encountered each other there was a misunderstanding and Agent Mather attempted to move towards the door. As he did so someone opened fire and both Policeman Soyars and Agent Mather were shot and killed.
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four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold. Twenty-five thousand responded. Two readers split the prize. Each had come up with the same word – “scofflaw.”
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Al Capone is blamed for murder of prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin. McSwiggin was mistakenly shot and killed by Capone’s henchmen during a shoot-out between rivals outside a bar. Capone was blamed but once again due to lack of evidence he escaped arrest. However, the murder was followed by a big outcry against gangster violence and public sentiment went against Capone.
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the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan goes to trial for bootlegging and high jacking.
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Gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States.
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