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This society was made to focus on problem in the country. Such as slavery, women rights, temeprance, and the improvement of our nation. They also pressed the most on the banning of alcohol which helped to form the 18th amendments years later
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Maine becomes the first state to make prohibition laws said before civil war times
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This was a political party in the US best known for its histori opposition to the sale and consumption of alcohol
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Legislature is broken up with people supproting alcohol known as wet and nonsupporters known as dry
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The amendment was ratified on this day but would not take effect until a further date which was the first amendment at this time to do so
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Woodrow Wilson vetos the Volstead Act which set the date for nation prohibition January 17, 1920 but the House overrided the veto and senate approved it
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Americans started to bootleg alcohol in any ways possible. Al Capone was one of the most famous with making over 60 million dollars by this. not only that crime, gambling, and prostitution all grew
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On this day the amendment went ineffect and all the states would have to follow this. this would be a whole year after the amendment was ratified. It made all production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal
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Franklin D Rosevlet won his election with one of the ideas of allowing alcohol again and many people followed him due to this idea. He was one of the major factors in repeling this Amendment
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On this day the 21st Amendment was ratified which repealed the 18th and made the production and sale of alcohol legal again. This was the only Amendment in U.S. history to be repealed
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By this year every state lifted its laws against prohibition and it was now legal to produce, sell, and make alcohol anywhere
