Prohibition

by Janae Grade 5

Prohibition was when the government made a law against making and selling alcohol in the United States. The law was the 18th Amendment to Constitution. It was made in 1919 because drinking in the United States was a problem.

The 18th Amendment did not work in the 1900’s because people were still selling alcohol. The way people would sell it was in boots. They were called bootleggers. Prohibition ended because people were breaking the law by making and selling alcohol, and the government couldn't control the bootleggers’ law-breaking. In 1933 the Federal Government voted not to have prohibition, and made the 21st Amendment, which stopped prohibition.

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