Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
During the 1820s intense religious and social movements spread across the country calling alcohol and drunkenness a "national curse." They were called temperance movements. The first state to have a temperance law was Massachusetts who in 1838 enacted a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in less than  quantities. In 1846, Maine passed the first state prohibition law. It was repealed two years later, still, other states also passed similar laws.