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    The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic...
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  • Rorabaugh, writing on the factors that brought about the start of the temperance movement, and later, Prohibition in the United States, states: As whiskey consumption...
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    The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages and...
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  • Prohibition Prohibition in the United States Repeal of Prohibition in the United States Temperance movement in the United States Women in the United States...
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    The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment...
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    The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the United States federal law enforcement agency with the responsibility of investigating the possession...
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    society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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    to 1932 in Finland (called kieltolaki, "ban law") 1920 to 1933: Prohibition in the United States After several years, prohibition failed in North America...
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  • drug prohibition in the United States. During the 19th century, "there was virtually no effective regulation of narcotics in the United States". Statutes...
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    The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...
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    the United States. Prohibition was ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 5, 1933. In the 1970s...
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    The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was an act of the 66th United States Congress designed to execute the 18th Amendment...
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  • prohibition and cannabis prohibition), prohibitions on tobacco smoking, and gun prohibition. Indeed, the period of Prohibition in the United States between...
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    Methodists. Although the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed nationwide Prohibition in the United States, prohibition under state...
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    Moonshine (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    the label. In Prohibition-era United States, moonshine distillation was done at night to deter discovery. While moonshiners were present in urban and rural...
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    In the United States, the non-medical use of cannabis is legalized in 24 states (plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and...
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  • over, except the Emirate of Sharjah.[citation needed]  United States – 1920–1933 (see prohibition in the United States) Religion and alcohol In 2020, South...
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  • Dry state (redirect from List of Dry States)
    Some states, such as North Dakota, entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead...
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  • Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages in the United States were connected to many different...
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  • S. 383 (1914) Arizona v. Gant Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 144 (1925). The National Prohibition Act required a search warrant for a search...
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  • city or town government, that is within the court's jurisdiction. A "writ of prohibition", in the United States, is a court order rendered by a higher...
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    "Prohibition in the United States" for more information) A prominent effect of Prohibition was the nearly total destruction of the liquor market. The public...
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    attacking large bootlegging gangs with small teams of Prohibition agents working under special United States attorneys. Neither Mellon nor Mitchell moved to...
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    1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously...
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    Maraschino cherry (category Agriculture in Oregon)
    themselves. It was signed on 17 Feb. 1912. During Prohibition in the United States as of 1920, the decreasingly popular alcoholic variety was illegal...
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  • protected speech or expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the United States, discussion of obscenity typically relates...
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    Speakeasy (category Prohibition in the United States)
    least the 1880s, but came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). During that time, the sale...
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    Prohibition in Canada was a ban on alcoholic beverages that arose in various stages, from local municipal bans in the late 19th century (extending to...
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    Andrew Volstead (category Prohibition in the United States)
    National Prohibition Act of 1919, usually called the Volstead Act. The act was the enabling legislation for the enforcement of Prohibition in the United States...
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    outright prohibitions began in the 1920s. By the mid-1930s cannabis was regulated as a drug in every state, including 35 states that adopted the Uniform...
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