Prohibition Timeline of Events

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Prohibition

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced...

Timeline of Events

1838

1.26.1838

Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

1919

10.28.1919

The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

1932

4.5.1932

Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.

1933

4.7.1933

Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.