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What was one result of the passage of the 18th Amendment?

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The 18th Amendment states that "...[it prohibits] the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to teh jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes..." and that "congress..... shall have concurrent power to enforce this article...

One of the results of the 18th Amendment was the founding of bootleggers, which were people who smuggled liquor into the US through placing the liquor into boots, and selling to the public.

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Answer: It spurred millions of people to use inventive and criminal ways to satiate their appetite for alcohol.

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The 18th amendment (January 16, 1920) banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition was the most ambitious social reform ever attempted in the United States. But it proved to be a colossal failure. The Eighteenth Amendment had so many loopholes that it virtually guaranteed failure.

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