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Glossary Term – Event
Start of Prohibition
Prohibition began when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
Glossary Term – Event
Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbidding the manufacture, sale, transportation, import, and export of “intoxicating liquors” was ratified, instituting Prohibition nationwide. The amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933.
Glossary Term – Event
Bill of Rights in effect
The Bill of Rights was ratified. The first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights protects individual liberties from the power of the central government; guarantees freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly; and specifes the rights of the accused in criminal and civil cases.
Glossary Term – Event
Twenty-second Amendment
The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the presidency, declaring that “No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice.”
