The Twenty-first Amendment

Section 1.

"The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed."

Section 2.

"The transportation or importation into any state, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited."

Section 3.

"This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress."

Section 1.

We take back the eighteenth amendment!!! (prohibition of alcohol). 

Section 2.

This was what the eighteenth amendment said: selling, making, or bringing liquor into the United States is prohibited.

Section 3.

This amendment will be ineffective unless ratified by our states within seven years.

The Prohibition-era lasted a whole 15 years before the twenty-first amendment was ratified on December 5th, 1933, officially repealing the eighteenth amendment. The prohibition failed to keep people sober and ended up costing the nation millions, so the eighteenth amendment simply lost popular support over the 15-year span. Just in 1933 alone, 43 states passed laws providing for action on the proposed repeal.

 prohibition trivia questions:

-Was it illegal to drink during the prohibition era?

No, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was forbidden, but not drinking.

-Drug stores continued to sell alcohol as "medicine." True or false?

True! Drug stores were allowed to sell "medicinal whiskey" that was used to treat anything you could think of, kind of like how marijuana is treated now.