prohibition in the United States

Also known as Prohibition Era, alcohol prohibition in the United States, prohibition of alcohol in the United States, The Noble Experiment

constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages

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end time: 1933-12-05
start time: 1920-01-17
Commons category: Prohibition in the United States

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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 beverages. The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 5, 1933.