Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction
(Book #632 in the Very Short Introductions Series)
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Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League, the states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Bolstered by the Volstead Act, this amendment made Prohibition law: alcohol could no longer be produced, imported,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190280107
ISBN13:9780190280109
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 4.5" x 6.8"
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