Eighteenth Amendment

Examples of Eighteenth Amendment in the following topics:

• The Prohibition Movement

  • Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the U.S.
  • Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S.

• Prohibition

  • On October 28, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S.
  • The 18th Amendment had outlawed "intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes" but did not set a limit on alcohol content, which the Volstead Act did by establishing a limit of .5% alcohol per unit.
  • On December 5, 1933, ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
  • In a positive epilogue, however, the overall consumption of alcohol dropped and remained below pre-Prohibition levels long after the Eighteenth Amendment ceased to be law.

• Features of Progressivism

  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people, instead of by state legislatures.
  • In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and a small income tax imposed on high incomes.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.

• The Progressive Era

  • The Eighteenth Amendment, passed in late 1917, banned the manufacturing, sale, and transport of alcohol, while the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1919, gave women the right to vote.
  • Popularly known as the "Anthony Amendment" and introduced by Senator Aaron A.
  • Sargent (R-CA), it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.

• Elements of Reform

  • Significant changes enacted at the national levels included the imposition of an income tax with the Sixteenth Amendment, direct election of Senators with the Seventeenth Amendment, Prohibition with the Eighteenth Amendment, and women's suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people (instead of state legislatures).
  • It achieved national success with the passage of the 18th Amendment by Congress in late 1917, and the ratification by three-fourths of the states in 1919.
  • In late 1917, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment; it was ratified in 1919 and took effect in January 1920.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1930, with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment, thanks to a well organized repeal campaign led by Catholics (who stressed personal liberty) and businessmen (who stressed the lost tax revenue).

• The Election of 1920

  • Since the Eighteenth Amendment had already been passed the previous year, initiating the period of Prohibition that banned alcohol sales and consumption in the United States, this single-issue party seemed unnecessary to voters.
  • The election was the first since the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, in which women gained the right to vote in all 48 contiguous states.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • Prohibition continued until its repeal in the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution in 1933.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.

• Slavery in the Antebellum Period

  • The labor-intensive agricultural economies of the South during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were dependent upon the continued institution of slavery.
  • The invention of the cotton gin in the late eighteenth century had revitalized cotton production in the South and Southwest, further increasing demand for slaves.
  • By December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment took effect, permanently abolishing slavery throughout the entire United States with no compensation for the former slaves’ owners.

• The Reconstruction Amendments

  • The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868, was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.