Today in History

January 16, 1920

The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution Ratified

On this day in 1920, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution went into effect, initiating Prohibition. The new law forbade the sale, manufacture, transportation and consumption of alcohol throughout the United States. The primary support for Prohibition came from Protestants of each party in both the North and the Southern United States. Organized crime launched into an enthusiastic black market, as millions of Americans imbibed on the sly. Congress repealed the Eighteenth Amendment in 1933, during the Great Depression, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

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