Which amendment repealed Prohibition?

Which amendment repealed Prohibition?

• A. Eighteenth Amendment
• B. Nineteenth Amendment
• C. Twenty-first Amendment
• D. Twenty-fifth Amendment

Answer: (C)

Ending Prohibition happened through a constitutional change that overturned a prior amendment. The ban on alcohol was created by the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. By the early 1930s, public support for Prohibition had collapsed, and the economic pressures of the Great Depression made repealing it appealing. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended nationwide Prohibition, while returning authority to regulate alcohol to the states. The other amendments listed do not fit because one expanded voting rights for women, another deals with presidential succession, and the one that started Prohibition did not repeal anything.

Ending Prohibition happened through a constitutional change that overturned a prior amendment. The ban on alcohol was created by the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919, which outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. By the early 1930s, public support for Prohibition had collapsed, and the economic pressures of the Great Depression made repealing it appealing. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended nationwide Prohibition, while returning authority to regulate alcohol to the states. The other amendments listed do not fit because one expanded voting rights for women, another deals with presidential succession, and the one that started Prohibition did not repeal anything.