This paper presents a history of the federal role in regulating the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in the United States from the opening of the First Congress of 1789 to the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1918. Beginning with the passage of the nation's first tariff, imposing duties on imported beer, wine, and spirits, and ending with the onset of national Prohibition and the complete ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, the story of the federal regulation of alcohol from 1789 to 1918 encompasses a wide variety of political, economic, sociological, and constitutional issues and features a series of epic debates and even violent struggles involving all three branches of government
With the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, the United States bec...
The American temperance movement, which culminated in the thirteen-year "dry" hiatus known as Nation...
The 18th amendment arose out of a larger temperance movement in which alcohol was commonly viewed as...
The United States has a drinking problem; or rather, an alcohol problem. In the aftermath of Prohibi...
Early nineteenth century Americans embraced a culture of drink that was embedded in all parts of lif...
In 1933 America decisively ended its ill-fated experiment in national prohibition by enacting the Tw...
For decades prior to National Prohibition, the liquor question received attention from various tem...
Many in the early twentieth century believed alcohol to be responsible for the many problems plaguin...
“Selling Sobriety” explores the uneasy symbiosis between the antebellum temperance movement and a di...
National alcohol prohibition in the United States between 1920 and 1933 is believed widely to have b...
Temperance is an organized reform began at the end of the American Revolutionary War, its leaders in...
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbade the manufacture and sale of alcoh...
Richard E Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, ...
The subject dissertation examines the history of private and governmental efforts to limit, temper, ...
Prohibition occurred between the years 1920 to 1933. The United States Congress ratified the XVII am...
With the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, the United States bec...
The American temperance movement, which culminated in the thirteen-year "dry" hiatus known as Nation...
The 18th amendment arose out of a larger temperance movement in which alcohol was commonly viewed as...
The United States has a drinking problem; or rather, an alcohol problem. In the aftermath of Prohibi...
Early nineteenth century Americans embraced a culture of drink that was embedded in all parts of lif...
In 1933 America decisively ended its ill-fated experiment in national prohibition by enacting the Tw...
For decades prior to National Prohibition, the liquor question received attention from various tem...
Many in the early twentieth century believed alcohol to be responsible for the many problems plaguin...
“Selling Sobriety” explores the uneasy symbiosis between the antebellum temperance movement and a di...
National alcohol prohibition in the United States between 1920 and 1933 is believed widely to have b...
Temperance is an organized reform began at the end of the American Revolutionary War, its leaders in...
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbade the manufacture and sale of alcoh...
Richard E Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, ...
The subject dissertation examines the history of private and governmental efforts to limit, temper, ...
Prohibition occurred between the years 1920 to 1933. The United States Congress ratified the XVII am...
With the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, the United States bec...
The American temperance movement, which culminated in the thirteen-year "dry" hiatus known as Nation...
The 18th amendment arose out of a larger temperance movement in which alcohol was commonly viewed as...