What Was Prohibition?

9. Repealing Prohibition With the 21st Amendment

The Great Depression had begun and Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the repeal of Prohibition as part of his platform when running for President. The 21st Amendment was passed on December 5, 1933 and it did a lot more than simply end Prohibition. This is the only time a constitutional amendment had been overturned and was also the only time an amendment was used to ratify state conventions. It gave the power of deciding whether a state would be dry or wet to individual states. The last dry state ended in 1966, although there are still dry counties.