The 18th Amendment: Prohibition in America
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The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution represents one of the most controversial and ultimately unsuccessful social experiments in American history. Ratified in 1919 and taking effect in 1920, this constitutional change prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors throughout the nation. The amendment emerged from decades of advocacy by temperance movements who believed that alcohol consumption...
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