Amendment 21

Amendment XXI

Section 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.


This amendment ended Prohibition in the United States. Prohibition was instituted in the 18th Amendment. The 21st amendment was an admission of the terrible failure of prohibition.



This photo shows how upset people were with the 18th amendment and the prohibition.

People celebrated the repeal of the 18th amendment and people everywhere finally could drink legally after 13 years.