CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially took hold on Jan. 17, 1920, a victory for the nation’s temperance movement, plunging the nation into Prohibition. The ...
The pair started small, pushing for bans on alcohol at the state level. But in 1917 decades of campaigning paid off. The 18th Amendment, which required the federal government to ban the manufacture ...