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The Senate decided to present an amendment to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol.
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The Senate and House of Representatives decide to pass the revised resolution to prohibit alcohol.
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Alcohol was banned if the alcohol content greater than 2.75%
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The 18th Amendment was ratified by 36 states
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The ban of alcohol that had an alcohol content greater than 2.75%took effect.
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Clarified law stating that beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume and was illegal.
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The 18th Amendment is passed and alcohol is banned in the United States.
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Official legal action takes place on anyone violating the 18th Amendment.
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Cleveland had an estimated 3,000 illegal speakeasies, compared to the 1,200 legal bars it had in 1919.
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Gangster Al Capone became a large role in the bootlegging business.
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By this time, there were an estimated 30,000 speakeasies.
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Editorial cartoon that appeared in the Putnam County Courier, which regards a canidate who was running for office.
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Deaths in men dropped from 29.5 per 100,000 in 1911 to 10.7 per 100,000 in 1929.
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Illegal brewery discovered after fire. Three hundred gallons of beer found in barrels. Owners never found.
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Sixty dry federal agents raided fifteen restaurants, inns, stores, and private homes located throughout Putnam Count. Twenty men were arrested.
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President Herbert Hoover stated that prohibition needed to end in his acceptance speech.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act which legalized the manufacture and sale of certain types of alcohol.
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This act is legalized beer and wine with alcohol content up to 3.2% alc/vol.
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Produced by Washington's Abner Drury Brewery was delivered to President Roosevelt at the White House.
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The 21st Amendment releals the 18th Amendment, making alcohol legal.