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Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Prohibition
Amendments XVIII and XXI: Prohibition and Repeal
Author: Sylvia EngdahlPublisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN: 073774328X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This volume presents the legal concepts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments in an engagingly simplified, easily understandable way, while reflecting provisions in both the national and state curriculum standards. Readers will look at these two amendments in historical context, examining how they have been tested in the courts and present current controversies and debates. Lastly, readers will examine each amendment's current relevance.
Legal Aspects of the Prohibition Amendment
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Prohibition: Going Or Coming?
Author: Elton Raymond ShawPublisher:
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Category : Prohibition
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Prohibition
Author: W. J. RorabaughPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190689935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported, transported, or sold. This bizarre episode is often humorously recalled, frequently satirized, and usually condemned. The more interesting questions, however, are how and why Prohibition came about, how Prohibition worked (and failed to work), and how Prohibition gave way to strict governmental regulation of alcohol. This book answers these questions, presenting a brief and elegant overview of the Prohibition era and its legacy. During the 1920s alcohol prices rose, quality declined, and consumption dropped. The black market thrived, filling the pockets of mobsters and bootleggers. Since beer was too bulky to hide and largely disappeared, drinkers sipped cocktails made with moonshine or poor-grade imported liquor. The all-male saloon gave way to the speakeasy, where together men and women drank, smoked, and danced to jazz. After the onset of the Great Depression, support for Prohibition collapsed because of the rise in gangster violence and the need for revenue at local, state, and federal levels. As public opinion turned, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to repeal Prohibition in 1932. The legalization of beer came in April 1933, followed by the Twenty-first Amendment's repeal of the Eighteenth that December. State alcohol control boards soon adopted strong regulations, and their legacies continue to influence American drinking habits. Soon after, Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The alcohol problem had shifted from being a moral issue during the nineteenth century to a social, cultural, and political one during the campaign for Prohibition, and finally, to a therapeutic one involving individuals. As drinking returned to pre-Prohibition levels, a Neo-Prohibition emerged, led by groups such as Mothers against Drunk Driving, and ultimately resulted in a higher legal drinking age and other legislative measures. With his unparalleled expertise regarding American drinking patterns, W. J. Rorabaugh provides an accessible synthesis of one of the most important topics in US history, a topic that remains relevant today amidst rising concerns over binge-drinking and alcohol culture on college campuses.
The Wrecking of the Eighteenth Amendment
Author: Ernest B. GordonPublisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The first two years of National Prohibition, together with the preceding two of near-Prohibition, vindicated it as the ideal method of treating social alcoholism. It was as when a door opens from a dark room and then closes. It has at least revealed the difference between darkness and light. - Introduction.
Repealing National Prohibition
Author: Honorée Fanonne JeffersPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873386722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.
Repeal of the Prohibition Amendment
Author: Ransom Hooker GillettPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment
Author: Richard F. HammPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807861871
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys' crusade. Federalism gave the drys a restricted setting--individual states--as a proving ground for their proposals. But federal policies precipitated a series of crises in the states that the drys strove to overcome. According to Hamm, interaction with the federal government system helped to reshape prohibitionists' legal culture--that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
A Look at the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments
Author: Amy GrahamPublisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781598450637
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Showcases the major amendments to the Constitution since its ratification in 1792, summarizing how the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created and discussing how each amendment affects our lives today.