As Episode 1: A Nation of Drunkards begins ... it has the power to oust politicians who dare to speak out against Prohibition. With the ratification of the income tax amendment in 1913, the ...

Excerpt from "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" "THE STREETS OF San ... and other European countries – crowded into the nation's burgeoning cities, they worked hard to assimilate ...

In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” and proceeded to hurl bricks and ...

Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The movement was fueled by moral and religious objections ...

In an editorial titled “Who Undermines Prohibition?” (June 27, 1923). The Nation argued that the issue should be decided by a national popular vote. Richard Kreitner and The Almanac The Orange ...

Crime and corruption, 1910-1929 - WJEC Crime and corruption were rife in the 1920s as a result of Prohibition, organised crime and Warren Harding's corrupt government. Economic boom - WJEC America ...

Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The movement was fueled by moral and religious objections, as ...