Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment)
GPTKB entity
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkb:historical_event |
| gptkbp:adoptedBy |
1919
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| gptkbp:came_into_effect |
January 17, 1920
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| gptkbp:country |
gptkb:United_States
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| gptkbp:enforcedBy |
gptkb:Volstead_Act
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| gptkbp:followedBy |
gptkb:Repeal_of_Prohibition
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment)
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| gptkbp:influenced |
gptkb:law
American culture law enforcement practices alcohol regulation in the United States |
| gptkbp:number |
gptkb:18th_Amendment
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| gptkbp:opposedBy |
wets
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| gptkbp:part_of |
gptkb:United_States_Constitution
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| gptkbp:precededBy |
temperance movement
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| gptkbp:prohibits |
manufacture of alcoholic beverages
sale of alcoholic beverages transportation of alcoholic beverages |
| gptkbp:ratifiedBy |
36 states
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| gptkbp:relatedEvent |
Prohibition era
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| gptkbp:relatedOrganization |
gptkb:Anti-Saloon_League
gptkb:Women's_Christian_Temperance_Union |
| gptkbp:repealedBy |
gptkb:Twenty-first_Amendment
December 5, 1933 |
| gptkbp:resultedIn |
rise of organized crime
speakeasies bootlegging increased law enforcement |
| gptkbp:section |
Section 2: Enforcement
Section 3: Ratification period Section 1: Prohibition of intoxicating liquors |
| gptkbp:sponsor |
Senator Andrew Volstead
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| gptkbp:supports |
temperance movement
drys |
| gptkbp:text |
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress. Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Woodrow_Wilson_administration
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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