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In 1920, five members of the New York legislature, all
lawfully elected, were denied of their seats simply because they were socialists
Relative proportions of immigrants from Northwestern Europe (red) and Southeastern Europe (blue) in the decades before and after the immigration restriction legislation.
Immigration Act of 1921 limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country
to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910
Gangster Al Capone, also known as ''Scarface,'' was a grasping and murderous booze distributor. He began a six years gang warfare that netted him millions of dollars. Later, he served eleven years in a federal penitenitiary for income-tax evasion, and released as a ''syphilitic wreck.''
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
