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Article: TIME TRIP.(18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Prohibition)(Brief Article)

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November 17, 2000
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* At one point in U.S. history, it was illegal for Americans of any age to drink alcoholic beverages. In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. That amendment, which went into effect in 1920, prohibited the making and selling of "intoxicating liquors." The period during which this ban was in effect is known as Prohibition.

* Prohibition didn't stop a lot of Americans from drinking alcohol, however. Many people went on drinking in secret, They started going to illegal bars called "speakeasies"

* Alcohol was supplied to speakeasies by "bootleggers," who sold liquor they made themselves or smuggled in from other countries. The term ...

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