Dry state
A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of
Prior to the adoption of nationwide prohibition in 1920, state legislatures passed local option laws that allowed a county or township to go dry if it chose to do so.[1] The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was among the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.[2]
Following Maine's lead, prohibition laws were soon passed in the states of
Following two unsuccessful attempts at national prohibition legislation (one in 1913 and the other in 1915), Congress approved a resolution on December 19, 1917, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, and importation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
The National Prohibition Act, also known as the
List of formerly dry states
This table lists the effective dates each state went dry and any dates of repeal that do not coincide with the end of national prohibition in 1933.
State | Dry date | Repeal date | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Maine | 1851 | 1856 | [citation needed] |
Vermont | 1853 | 1902 | |
Kansas | November 23, 1880 | 1948 | [7][8] |
Iowa | July 27, 1882 | 1894 | [9][10][11][12] |
North Dakota | November 2, 1889 | 1932 | |
South Dakota | November 2, 1889 | ||
Oklahoma | September 17, 1907 | 1959 | |
Georgia | January 1, 1908 | 1933 | [8] |
Mississippi | December 31, 1908 | 1966 | [8] |
North Carolina | January 1, 1909 | 1937 | [8][13] |
Tennessee | July 1, 1909 | 1939 | [8][14] |
Alabama | July 1, 1915 | [8] | |
Oregon | January 1, 1916 | [8] | |
West Virginia | July 1, 1914 | [8] | |
Washington | January 1, 1916 | [8] | |
Montana | December 31, 1918 | [8] | |
Nebraska | May 1, 1917 | [8] | |
Indiana | 1918 | [15] | |
Michigan | April 30, 1918 | [8] | |
Florida | December 9, 1918 | ||
Kentucky | November 1919[16] | [17] | |
Texas | May 1919 | 1935 | [18] |
Virginia | November 1, 1916 | [8] | |
South Carolina | December 31, 1915 | [8] | |
Idaho | January 1, 1916 | [8] | |
Colorado | January 1, 1916 | [8] | |
Arkansas | January 1, 1916 | [8] | |
Arizona | January 1, 1915 | [8] |
See also
- Dry county
- Alcoholic beverage control state
- List of alcohol laws of the United States by state
- Alcohol prohibition in India
Notes
- ^ James H. Madison (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920–1945. The History of Indiana. Vol. 5. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. p. 40.
- ^ Henry Stephen Clubb (1856). The Maine Liquor Law: Its Origin, History, and Results, Including a Life of Hon. Neal Dow. Fowler and Wells, for the Maine Law Statistical Society. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ^ a b c d e Jane McGrew. "History of Alcohol Prohibition". National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ "Prohibition wins in Senate, 47 to 8" (PDF). New York Times. December 19, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
- ^ See U.S. Const. art. V.
- ^ "Amendments 11–27". US National Archives.
- ^ "Kansas Liquor Laws" (PDF). Kansas Legislative Research Department. February 24, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1917. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1917. p. 8.
- ^ "Prohibition Rule: Murder in Sioux City". Wild West Magazine. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ "Original Gangsters: The Iowa City Beer Riots of 1884". Little Village Magazine. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ "Sioux City's Prohibition Past Fascinates Historians". The Sioux City Journal. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ "Beer Business Has Been In-and-Out Venture Here, but Whisky Has Flowed Freely Much of the Time". Sioux City Journal. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ Patrick Horn, "The Temperance Movement in North Carolina"
- ^ Tennessee Encyclopedia, "The Temperance in Tennessee"
- ISBN 978-0-268-03383-5.
- ^ Date the state prohibition law was passed.
- ^ Jim Warren (2011-10-18). "Revisiting Prohibition: Kentucky was ahead of the times". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1918. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1918. p. 8.