Timeline HyperDoc

By AshlynnCrawford

  • The National Prohibition Party is Founded

    The group promotes a variety of social reforms and is popular with progressives of the 19th century.

  • Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to make prohibition part of its state Constitution

    Activists try to enforce the law. People try and protest outside of saloons, while other people interfere with business and break alcohol bottles.

  • The U.S. Senate passes the Volstead Act

    The Law, also known as the National Prohibition Act- prohibits "intoxicating beverages" (any drink containing anything more than 0.5% alcohol content).

  • The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified by 36 states

    The amendment bans the production, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, it does not actually outlaw their consumption.

  • Bootlegging Alcohol

    Starting in the 1920s, after the Prohibition Act was was passed in January of 1920. This lead to people bootlegging alcohol.

  • Elliot Ness begins to crack down on violators of the law

    A bunch of people, including Al Capone's gang in Chicago. Capone will be arrested and prosecuted for tax evasion.

  • Herbert Hoover Advocates for the end of Prohibition

    Herbert Hoover of the republican party gives an acceptance speech, discussing the ills of Prohibition and why it needs to end.

  • Some Alcohol Products Legalized

    Rosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allows the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages.

  • The U.S. Congress proposes an amendment to the Constitution that would end Prohibition.

    Because of Rosevelt's signing of the Cullen-Harrison Act, Congress proposed the amendment to upturn the Prohibition Act.

  • Prohibition is officially repealed by the passage of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

    We can drink alcohol now. Thanks, 1933.