On January 29, 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol within the United States; it would go into effect the following January
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol.
The temperance movement, discouraging the use of alcoholic beverages, had been active and key words as temperance, prohibition, saloon, alcohol or alcoholic beverage
