Prohibisyon

Prohibisyon

The ban of the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, adopted in 1919, established prohibition. The amendment was repealed in 1933, with adoption of the Twenty first Amendment.

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Category: American history
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Gabinete

History; American history

This term refers to the heads of the executive departments.

Andrew Jackson

History; American history

As major general during the War of 1812, he defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and a British army at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818, he led an American ...

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

History; American history

U. S. Propaganda agency of World War I.

Charles Grandison Finney

History; American history

The "father of modern revivalism," Finney devised many techniques adopted by later revival preachers. He encouraged many women to participate actively in revival.

Billy Yank

History; American history

This appellation was used to refer to common soldiers serving in Union armies during the Civil War. See Johnny Reb.

Calvinismo

History; American history

Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to ...

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kulantro

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