During the 1920’s the manufacture, sale, transportation, import or export of alcoholic beverages
was illegal across the United States. Why did it take the ratification of the 21 st Amendment to the
Constitution in 1933 to make alcohol manufacture, sale, transportation, importation or
exportation legal again?
a. The states each had conflicting versions of the law.
b. The Supreme Court refused to rule on the federal law banning alcohol.
c. Congressional representatives knew they would lose votes if they reversed the original
federal law.
d. Alcohol was banned by an amendment to the Constitution, and only another
amendment could repeal it.