The Eighteenth Amendment, passed in 1919, established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. It made the buying, selling, and transportation of alcohol illegal. It resulted in the growth of organized crime in America. It’s important to realize that this is the only amendment to the Constitution that limited freedoms to American citizens. In 1933, the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment. No other amendment has been repealed.
Prohibition was supposed to be a constitutional amendment that would help America to be a less violent, morally sound country. However, this law just had the opposite effect. Violence increased during this time as rival gangs competed to sell illegal alcohol to millions of Americans over the course of a decade. Realizing that Prohibition was not working, the US government developed the 21st amendment in order to get rid of the 18th amendment.
