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The Act that enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the transport, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was the National Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, chapter 85, 41Stautes 305.It was codified at Title 27 Chapters 1 to 4. of the United States Code.he Act that enforced the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the transport, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was the National Prohibition Act of October 28, 1919, chapter 85, 41Stautes 305.
The 18th Amendment established the Prohibition of intoxicating (alcoholic) beverages in the US, but the Volstead Act was necessary to define what the amendment meant by âintoxicatingâ and it gave the government the legal right to enforce the law.he exhibit ran from October 27, 2005 until April 10, 2006. As part of my research I wrote a short history of the passage of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act which I present here in the hopes that it may be useful. I also wrote a page on the history of Prohibition in Virginia.