prohibition

     

Prohibition of alcohol, often shortene to the term prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a sumptuary law in a jurisdiction which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced. Usually the term as referred to a historical period is applied to countries of European culture. In the Muslim World, consumption of alcoholic beverages is forbidden according to Islamic Law.

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  • The "dry" period in which the 18th Amendment was in force
  • In 1952 composer Stuart Hamblen was the presidential candidate of this anti-liquor party
  • From the Latin for "to hold in front", it's the period epitomized here
  • July 23's cover showed Roy Asa Haynes, the U.S. commissioner of this unpopular program repealed in 1933
  • Ratified in 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed this
  • A law or decree that forbids; it sums up the 18th Amendment
  • A law or decree that forbids, like what the 18th Amendment established
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds the reins to a Clydesdale horse) A symbol for over 75 years, the Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced on April 7, 1933 to honor the end of this 13-year period in American history
  • It's the period, 1920 to 1933, when alcoholic beverages were illegal
  • Rhode Island never ratified this amendment even after it went into effect on January 16, 1920

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