Volstead Act

Examples of Volstead Act in the following topics:

• The Prohibition Movement

  • The Volstead Act set the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited.
  • Prior to the 1920 implementation of the Volstead Act, approximately 14 percent of federal, state, and local tax revenues were derived from alcohol commerce.
  • On March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an amendment to the Volstead Act, known as the "Cullen-Harrison Act," allowing the manufacture and sale of 3.2 percent beer and light wines.
  • The Volstead Act previously defined an intoxicating beverage as one with greater than 0.5 percent alcohol.
  • Upon signing the Cullen-Harrison Act, Roosevelt made his famous remark: "I think this would be a good time for a beer."

• Prohibition

  • Constitution banning alcohol was implemented through the Volstead Act, which went into effect on January 17, 1920.
  • While the commercial manufacture, sale and transport of alcohol was illegal, Section 29 of the Volstead Act allowed private citizens to make wine and cider from fruit, but not beer, in their homes.
  • In addition to this loophole, the wording of the act did not specifically prohibit the consumption of alcohol.
  • 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.
  • Roosevelt signed an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of light wine and "3.2 beer", referring to 3.2% alcohol content.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • Constitution banning alcohol was implemented through the Volstead Act, which went into effect on January 17, 1920.

• Elements of Reform

  • The Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921 provided federal funding for maternity and child care, especially federally-financed instruction in maternal and infant health care.
  • In 1913, Congress passed the Webb-Kenyon Act forbade the transport of liquor into dry states.
  • As the United States entered World War I, the Conscription Act banned the sale of liquor near military bases.
  • In August 1917, the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act banned production of distilled spirits for the duration of the war.
  • The Volstead Act, 1919, defined intoxicating as having alcohol content greater than 0.5% and established the procedures for enforcement of the Act.

• Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

  • Constitution banning alcohol was implemented through the Volstead Act, which went into effect on January 17, 1920.

• Higher Education

  • President Johnson's Great Society made improvements to elementary, secondary, and higher education through a series of acts.
  • The Act also began a transition from federally-funded institutional assistance to individual student aid.
  • The Higher Education Act of 1965 was reauthorized in 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1992, 1998, and 2008.
  • This signing plaque rests on campus grounds of Texas State University commemorating the Higher Education Act.
  • Distinguish the key features - as well as the effects - of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Facilities Act, and the Higher Education Act.

• The Coercive Acts

  • Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.
  • Many colonists, however, viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights.
  • The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
  • The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.
  • Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.

• Enforcing the Navigation Acts

  • These Acts formed the basis for British overseas trade for nearly 200 years.
  • Later revisions of the Act added new regulations.
  • The Acts were in full force for a short time only.
  • On the whole, the Navigation Acts were more or less obeyed by colonists, despite their dissatisfaction, until the Molasses and Sugar Acts.
  • Describe the central stipulations of the Navigation Acts and the Acts' effects on the political and economic situation in the colonies

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were a series of laws that aimed to outlaw speech that was critical of the government.
  • The Naturalization Act repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1795 and extended the duration of residence required for aliens to become citizens of the United States from five years to fourteen years.
  • Enacted July 6, 1798, and providing no expiration provision, the act remains intact today as Title 50 of U.S.
  • The most controversial arrest made under the Alien and Sedition Acts was of a member of Congress.
  • While the Alien and Sedition Acts were left largely unenforced after 1800, the Alien Act was later used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Supreme Court was grappling with the constitutionality of the Sedition Acts as late as the 1960s.

• The Acts of Parliament

  • Two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain, known together as the Quartering Acts, ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
  • Following the expiration of an act that provided British regulars with quartering in New York, Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
  • An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.
  • This act was passed and enforced along with many others, known by the colonists as the "Intolerable Acts."  
  • This act expired on March 24, 1776.