America in the 1920s

The Eighteenth Amendment empowered Congress to enforce the Amendment through legislation; the Volstead Act enumerated the ways in which Prohibition would actually be carried out.

The Volstead Act protected select businesses who bought a liquor license before 1919, to manufacture, sell and transport liquor.

The Volstead Act was the law that repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, making alcohol legal to produce, sell, and transport once again.