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    The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic...
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  • Rorabaugh, writing on the factors that brought about the start of the temperance movement, and later, Prohibition in the United States, states: As whiskey consumption...
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    The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment...
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    The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages and...
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  • Prohibition Prohibition in the United States Repeal of Prohibition in the United States Temperance movement in the United States Women in the United States...
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  • drug prohibition in the United States. During the 19th century, "there was virtually no effective regulation of narcotics in the United States". Statutes...
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    society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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    to 1932 in Finland (called kieltolaki, "ban law") 1920 to 1933: Prohibition in the United States After several years, prohibition failed in North America...
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    the United States. Prohibition was ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 5, 1933. In the 1970s...
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    The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which...
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  • The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the United States federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of...
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    The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was an act of the 66th United States Congress designed to execute the 18th Amendment...
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    Missionary) and Methodists. Although the 21st Amendment repealed nationwide Prohibition in the United States, prohibition under state or local laws is permitted...
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  • prohibition and cannabis prohibition), prohibitions on tobacco smoking, and gun prohibition. Indeed, the period of Prohibition in the United States between...
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    Moonshine (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    the label. In Prohibition-era United States, moonshine distillation was done at night to deter discovery. While moonshiners were present in urban and rural...
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  • Dry state (redirect from List of Dry States)
    Some states, such as North Dakota, entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead...
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  • over, except the Emirate of Sharjah.[citation needed]  United States – 1920–1933 (see prohibition in the United States) Religion and alcohol In 2020, South...
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  • protected speech or expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the United States, discussion of obscenity typically relates...
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  • S. 383 (1914) Arizona v. Gant Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 144 (1925). The National Prohibition Act required a search warrant for a search...
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    In the United States, the non-medical use of cannabis is legalized in 24 states (plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and...
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  • city or town government, that is within the court's jurisdiction. A "writ of prohibition", in the United States, is a court order rendered by a higher...
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    Prohibition in Canada was a ban on alcoholic beverages that arose in various stages, from local municipal bans in the late 19th century (extending to...
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    attacking large bootlegging gangs with small teams of Prohibition agents working under special United States attorneys. Neither Mellon nor Mitchell moved to...
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    "Prohibition in the United States" for more information) A prominent effect of Prohibition was the nearly total destruction of the liquor market. The public...
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  • Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. Prohibition describes how the consumption and effect of alcoholic beverages in the United States were connected to many different...
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    outright prohibitions began in the 1920s. By the mid-1930s cannabis was regulated as a drug in every state, including 35 states that adopted the Uniform...
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    Maraschino cherry (category Agriculture in Oregon)
    themselves. It was signed on 17 Feb. 1912. During Prohibition in the United States as of 1920, the decreasingly popular alcoholic variety was illegal...
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    Andrew Volstead (category Prohibition in the United States)
    National Prohibition Act of 1919, usually called the Volstead Act. The act was the enabling legislation for the enforcement of Prohibition in the United States...
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    Speakeasy (category Prohibition in the United States)
    throughout the United States, due to the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Speakeasies largely disappeared after Prohibition ended in 1933...
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  • Scofflaw (category Prohibition in the United States)
    during the Prohibition era which originally denoted a person who drinks illegally, or otherwise ignored anti-drinking laws. It is a compound of the words...
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