THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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KKK
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NAACP
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National Origins Act 1924
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Red Scare
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Volstead Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Volstead Act (H.R. 6810), after Judiciary Chairman Andrew Volstead of Minnesota, this law was introduced by the House to implement the Prohibition Amendment by defining the process and procedures for banning alcoholic beverages, as well as their production and distribution.
Detailed explanation-2: -The National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, defined an intoxicating beverage as anything that contained more than one half of one percent alcohol.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1920 the 18th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating beverages within the United States. U.S. Marshals were the principal enforcing agents of the Prohibition laws until the Treasury Department created the Bureau of Prohibition in 1927.
Detailed explanation-4: -Volstead Act, formally National Prohibition Act, U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.