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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.

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Prohibition
anti-Prohibition protest
Prohibition Party
Al Capone
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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