Eighteenth Amendment  Prohibition of Liquor

• Overview of Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition of Liquor
• Early Federal and State Prohibition Laws
• Proposal and Ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment
• Volstead Act
• The Eighteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court
• Scope of the Eighteenth Amendment’s Prohibition
• Federal and State Enforcement Powers
• Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
• Ratification Deadline
• Historical Background
  • Alcoholic Beverages in Colonial America
  • Temperance Movements of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Post-Civil War Temperance Organizations