USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, as announced in this proclamation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol.

Detailed explanation-2: -Section 1. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -18th Amendment-Prohibition of Liquor | Constitution Center.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933-it is the only amendment to be repealed.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-5: -Eighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol.