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4. Prohibition of alcohol in the United States would begin January 16, 1920.

6. The earliest temperance unions go back to the nation’s founding and the War of 1812.

12. In the presidential election of 1928, Al Smith carried only eight states.

13. “In order to enforce Prohibition, it will require a police force of 250,000 men, and a force of 250,000 to police the police.” Fiorello LaGuardia 99th Mayor of the City of New York

14. “The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses.... ” Billy Sunday Virginian Evangelist

16. Prohibition was repealed on December 5, 1933 throught the twenty-first amendment.

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