In 1917, the US Congress passed the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating beverages. The 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919. But enforcing Prohibition proved to be exceedingly difficult. As one observer at the time said, """I have noticed that every attempt to legislate morals into the people has resulted in disaster." By 1933, Congress passed and the states ratified the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment and ended the Prohibition Era.
It was "a. South Carolina" that defeated the cooperationist argument that the South should act as a unit, since it was South Carolina that was the first to officially secede from the Union.
The treasure fleet voyages cost Ming China vast amounts of
money and brought nil returns since they were not trade excursions but only
brought back exotic novelties. As a result, the government recovered little of
the cost. Moreover, China was self-sufficient and did not need anything from
the Indian Ocean countries
