With Prohibition in place, but ineffectively enforced, one observer noted, America had hardly freed itself from the scourge of alcohol abuse – instead, the "drys" had their law, while the "wets ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...

Groups that wanted to keep the freedom to consume alcohol were known as ‘wets’. President Herbert Hoover called Prohibition "the Noble Experiment". Its supporters believed that problems in ...

When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well. Certainly, previous attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American ...

One year after ratification, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition began. A short time afterward, the Volstead Act, passed by Congress, provided for federal enforcement. Alcohol consumption declined ...