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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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  • Thumbnail for Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    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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  • 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 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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    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    The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...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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    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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  • is known as New Beer's Eve. Prohibition in the United States on the national level revolved around the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which generally...
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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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  • in the United States before Prohibition, as seen in the 1891 New Orleans Lynchings. The rise in popularity of feature films led to an increase in the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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  • is restricted or illegal Prohibitionism in Christianity Prohibition in the United States Prohibition in Canada Prohibition of drugs War on Drugs, an...
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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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    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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