National Prohibition in the U.S. was imposed on January 17, 1920.
1925
Manufacturing of alcohol I think.
It's called the Prohibition Amendment. The amendment itself did not ban the actual consumption of alcohol, but made obtaining it legally difficult. Here's the text. "Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."
The Embargo Act.
The Chinese Exclusion Act, passed on May 6, 1882, prohibited/suspended Chinese immigration into the US during the 1880's. - Yüri -
1933
1925
Manufacturing of alcohol I think.
The Eighteenth Amendment
The year of 1920 was the year that the 18th Amendment took effect. This amendment was ratified in 1919, and stipulated that one year after ratification the sale, manufacture, importation and transportation of alcohol for beverage use would then be illegal.
This was known as Prohibition. Sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited.
December 5, 1933.
Yes. However, it is prohibited in 13 US states, including California and Florida.
New Hampshire.
1920 to 1933
1990
About 6 billion every year is spent on alcohol advertising.