Prohibition Timeline

  • 1st prohibition law passed in Maine.

  • 13 states have enacted prohibition legislation.

  • The National Prohibition Party is founded.

  • Kansas is the 1st state to have prohibition in its constition

  • The National prohibition party elects its first member of the house of representitives.

  • Auri saloon league is formed.

  • US. senate passes the volstead act.

  • THe war time prohibition act is passed to save grain for the war effort during world war 1.

  • 18th amendment is ratified by 36 states and goes into effect on the federal level.

  • volstead act passes the us. congress.

  • Elliott Ness begins to go after violators of prohibition and al capune s gang in chigago.

  • Herbert Hoaver talks about the need for the end of prohibition.

  • Frnaklin D. Roosevelt signs the Cullen Harrison Act which legalizes the manufacture and sale of certain alcohol.

  • Prohibition is repealed with the 21st amendment.