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Although some states had enacted statewide prohibition, National Prohibition existed between January of 1920 and December of 1933. The many problems it created led to Repeal in the latter year. Some states continued statewide prohibition until the mid-1960s, when Mississippi passed local option that permitted individual counties to decide for themselves whether or not to maintain prohibition within their own boundaries.
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What was the significance of nuremburgs law?
They legalized anti-Semitism, paving the way to the Holocaust.
Legalized pirates of the American revolution?
privateers
When was The first alcohol ban in US?
in 1919 and lasted until 1933
What Campaign is against sale of alcohol?
In the US it was, and is, commonly referred to as "Prohibition."
Presidents who did not drink alcohol?
The US Presidents known to completely abstain from alcohol were William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore. William Howard Taft and Ronald Reagan drank very little, and George W. Bush, our previous President, freely admits to having problems with alcohol, and presumably has been alcohol-free for a number of years.
