the action of forbidding something, especially by law.
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The sale of drinking alcohol was illegal and the rise of bootlegging & speakeasies.
Prohibition of alcohol.
The 21st amendment, which is the repeal of prohibition, repealed the 18th amendment which was about prohibition.
Prohibition in the 1930's prohibited alcohol sales in the United States. Prohibition means that something is prohibited, or not allowed.
National Prohibition began in 1920, although many states already had imposed state-wide prohibition by this time.
All US states were affected by National Prohibition.