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Volstead Act
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Volstead Act: see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph Volstead Act. Officially the National Prohibition Act of 1919, the federal law (passed over the veto of President Wilson) made provisions for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. The act defined an intoxicating beverage as one containing more than .5% alcohol by volume.
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Volstead Act
18th Amendment, passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition (1919). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 286]

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