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Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibition, established by the eighteenth amendment, banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933. This led to the rise of illegal alcohol production and distribution, as well as an increase in organized crime.
Prohibit the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Name and briefly describe at least two results of the United States' adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
The eighteenth amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.
prohibitionProhibition (the 18th amendment).The 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment.The Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) in 1933.
eighteenth amendment.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established prohibition by banning "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors".
The 18th Amendment
The twenty-first amendment repeals the eighteenth amendment.
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of all intoxicating liquors within, into or out of the United States - known as Prohibition. It took effect in January 1920. By 1933, people realized this was not as good idea as it had seemed, and the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.