History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1093 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Prohibition Arrives
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The idea
The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in January nineteen nineteen, took effect a year later, and the Volstead Act gave it the force of law.
In practice
Saloons closing across the country in nineteen twenty.
Where people slip
Unit six taught the temperance campaign. The anchor says enforcement failed, a story unit nine takes up.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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