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1 sty 1991 · In the decade before Prohibition, the US homicide rate was only 8.4 per 100,000 population, but within a year of the Volstead Act (Volstead Act 1920), designed to strengthen the 18 th Amendment,...
AN ACT To prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to insure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries.
As of the morning of January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment began to be enforced throughout the United States. It prohibited the transportation, sale, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquors (defined by the Volstead Act as any beverage with an alcohol content of 0.5 percent or more).
The Volstead Act, officially titled the "National Prohibition Act", was passed on Oct 18, 1919 and went into effect Feb 1, 1920. It effectively outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages unless for religious or medical purposes. Allowed for possession or use of alcoholic beverages in private homes with legally acquired alcohol.
Volstead Act, U.S. law enacted in 1919 (and taking effect in 1920) to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. It is named for Minnesota Rep. Andrew Volstead, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who had championed the bill.
1 sty 2019 · The Volstead Act was put into place for the purpose of enforcing this constitutional amendment. The experiment was meant to alleviate the various social ills that many perceived alcoholic beverages created such as violence, crime, corruption, and poor health.
Volstead Act in 1919; and it present a theoretical which purports to explain the nature of a particular political phenomenon— namely the concept of the passionate maóority.
