The 18th Amendment

By SkylarKroeger

  • The Ban

    Held that a ban on the sale of alcohol would ameliorate poverty and other societal issues.

  • Who was all involved with the amendment.

    Attributed to alcohol virtually all of society's ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption.

  • Section 4

    This Amendment was proposed by congress first

  • An Organization that was a part of the whole thing.

    The organized efforts of the temperance movement and the Anti-Saloon League.

  • Section 1

    In the first year of the ratification, the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within. Therefore beverage purpose was hereby prohibited.

  • Section 2

    Congress and several States shall concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  • Section 3

    The article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislature of several states. Within seven years from the date of the submission hereof the State by the Congress

  • The Volstead Act

    The Volstead act declared that liquor, wine, and beer all qualified as intoxicating liquors and therefore were prohibited.

  • The Amendment

    The 21st amendment finally DID repeal the 18th amendment in 1933

  • The Twenty-first amendment

    It is the only amendment to be repealed.