The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Prohibition of Alcohol (1920)

Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production and sale of alcohol from 1920 until 1933. Pietistic protestants sought to heal society by directly combating alcoholism, political corruption, and family violence through the prohibition of alcohol. Needless to say, things did not go to plan. On December 5, 1933, prohibition was lifted with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

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