THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
PROHIBITION OF THE 1920S
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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 The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol.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: -The beginning of the Great Depression after the stock market crash of 1929 under Hoover, and the prospect of new jobs and tax revenue from legalized alcohol triggered a groundswell of political support for repeal, and for Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Presidential Proclamation 2065 of December 5, 1933, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the Repeal of Prohibition.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.