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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.n 1930 the Prohibition Commissioner estimated that in 1919, the year before the Volstead Act became law, the average drinking American spent $17 per year on alcoholic beverages. By 1930, because enforcement diminished the supply, spending had increased to $35 per year (there was no inflation in this period).
1916: Almost every state had Temperance organizations and statutes that prohibited alcohol consumption. 1919-1920: The Volstead Act, passed on October 28, 1919, clarified the 18th amendment that prohibited all beer, wine, malt liquor or vinous liquors from being manufactured, transported or owned. Since the law didn't go into effect until 1920, many people stocked up a personal supply while it was still legal. 1920-1929: Gangsters (like Al Capone) become violent bootleggers, and violent crimes rises. In 1929, Elliot Ness starts his campaign against Al Capone and other prohibition violators.