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Prohibition: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1920 - 1933
Location United States

Did You Know?

  • The 18th Amendment did not outlaw alcohol consumption.
  • Winemakers stayed in business by selling "wine bricks" that could be dissolved to make wine.

Photos and Videos

Prohibition
A group of men in suits and hats march in an anti-prohibition parade in New York, holding large placards with protest messages and small American flags.
Prohibition Party
Al Capone seated and facing forward, wearing a dark three-piece suit, patterned tie, and pocket square, in a black-and-white portrait from around 1935.
James Cagney in a tuxedo holding a gun sits in the foreground, while Jean Harlow in a glamorous dress stands behind him holding a cigarette holder, in a scene from The Public Enemy.
Prohibition
Wrecked car with cases of moonshine during Prohibition in the United States
How Prohibition led to the invention of the Caesar salad
Travel back to the Prohibition era and watch President Franklin Roosevelt sign the beer bill into law
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