USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nationwide Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The Eighteenth Amendment-which illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol-was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917. In 1919 the amendment was ratified by the three-quarters of the nation’s states required to make it constitutional.

Detailed explanation-2: -18th Amendment-Prohibition of Liquor | Constitution Center.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933-it is the only amendment to be repealed. The Eighteenth Amendment was the product of decades of efforts by the temperance movement, which held that a ban on the sale of alcohol would ameliorate poverty and other societal problems.

Detailed explanation-4: -After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.