Changes

If the passage of a federal income tax granted the nation’s legislators the flexibility to eliminate excise taxes on alcohol, the declining revenues from taxing those incomes encouraged them to reconsider. Almost immediately after Roosevelt’s inauguration, Congress proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would repeal Prohibition, and in less than a year enough states approved the resolution to end nationwide Prohibition in December of 1933. As before, states and local governments could enforce their own prohibitions, but the issue of a nationwide ban on alcohol has never been seriously considered again.

#Richard Hofstadter, ''The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.'' (1955)

#Robert H. Wiebe, ''The Search for Order, 1877-1920'' (1967)