<span>The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitutionrepealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 16, 1919. The Twenty-firstAmendment was ratified on December 5, 1933.</span>
surrender Southern forces or face annihilation attack the Northern city of Washington, D.C. fire on Fort Sumter or let it be replenished stop acts of secession or be impeached.