21st Amendment

By brookebooth

  • Bootlegging

    Bootlegging
    Nationwide Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The 18th Amendment which alcohol was officially illegal to make, sell, or consume in the United States, the demand for alcohol created an underground business of bootleggers.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and went till 1939. It was the longest depression ever experienced by the industrialized western world. Sparking the fundamental change in economic institutions

  • Blaine Act Proposed

    Blaine Act Proposed
    Sen. John J. Blaine from Wisconsin, proposed the Blaine Act In 1933. It proposed the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th Amendment.

  • Blane Act

    Blane Act
    Congress both initiated the Blane Act and proposed a new amendment to end prohibition. For the time in history of the Constitution, the new amendment was dent out for ratification by state ratifying conventions, as opposed to the more frequent method of state legislatures doing so.

  • Volstead Act

    Volstead Act
    The incoming President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the Volstead Act amended in April 1933 to allow people to have beer, or two, while they waited for the 21st Amendment to be ratified. The First team of Budweiser Clydesdales was sent to the White house to give President Roosevelt a ceremonial case beer.

  • The Start Of the 21st

    The Start Of the 21st
    The 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed ending national Prohibition. After the the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Some states sill continued Prohibition by maintaining statewide temperance laws.

  • The After Math of the Great Depression

    The After Math of the Great Depression
    Despite all the President's effort and the courage of the American people, the Depression hung on until 1941, when America's involvement in the Second World War resulted in the drafting of young men into military service, and the creation of millions of jobs in defense and war industries.

  • States Repeal

    States Repeal
    One state didn’t end its version of Probation until 1966. MIssissippi decided to keep its Prohibition laws for another three decades. As of 2004, half of Mississippi’s counties were dry. Today , 17 states don’t allow any of their counties to be dry.

  • NIAAA

    NIAAA
    Hence it can be inferred that the creation of the The National Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in 1971 was laudable and Formal effort to regard that, they reported the trends on alcohol. They would would promote health concerns related to alcohol consumption, on the positive side, there is strong popular support for these public health concerns.
    2005

  • Michigan Case

    Michigan Case
    In 2005, in the consolidated cases of Granholm v Heald and Swedenburg v Kelly, involving challenges to Michigan and New York laws respectively, the Court held that Section 2 of the 21st Amendment did not give states the power to discriminate against out-of-state wine sellers in ways that would otherwise violate the amendment.