Spotlight on: Primary Source The Supreme Court upholds national prohibition, 1920 Economics, Government and Civics After more than a century of activism, the temperance movement achieved its signal victory with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1919. The amendment abolished "the manufacture, sale, or...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Prescription for alcohol during Prohibition, 1923 Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math At midnight, January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol took effect. The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacture and sale (but not the possession, consumption,...