The law that enacted Prohibition was informally known as the Volstead Act, named after Andrew Volstead, the Congressman who sponsored the legislation. Officially titled the National Prohibition Act, it was passed by Congress in 1919 to provide enforcement measures for the Eighteenth Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. Intended to reduce alcohol consumption, it instead fueled bootlegging, speakeasies, and organized crime until its repeal in 1933 by the ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment.
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