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What was the 18th amendment and what impact did this amendment have on life in the 1920s? Was prohibition a failure or success?

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The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. Shortly after the amendment was ratified, Congress passed the Volstead Act to provide for the federal enforcement of Prohibition.

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