What was prohibition?
Feb 20, 2020
2 minutes
Following the end of World War I, calls for the removal of alcohol from sale in America grew louder across the country. At the stroke of midnight on 17 January 1920, the National Prohibition Act, commonly known as the Volstead Act, came into effect, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ‘intoxicating liquor’ across America. Seen as a social triumph by many
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