American History 101

For those who somehow missed it the 1st time around... and like to question my knowledge.. here are the hard facts...

Reader's Companion to American History
By 1916, twenty-one states had banned saloons. National elections that year returned a Congress in which dry members outnumbered the wets two-to-one. In December 1917, Congress submitted to the states the Eighteenth Amendment, which, when ratified in 1919, placed in the Constitution a nationwide ban on the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors." By that time most of the states had been dry for years. In 1920, the Volstead Act was to most Americans a belated confirmation of an earlier reality.

The End of Prohibition
December 5, 1933, marks the end of Prohibition for the United States. Utah was the last state to ratify the 21st Amendment, which nullified the 18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment prohibited the sale or transportation of liquor.