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A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted. Some states, such as North Dakota, entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead Act. No state remains completely dry, but some states do contain dry counties.

Prior to the adoption of nationwide prohibition in 1920, state legislatures passed local option laws that allowed a county or township to go dry if it chose to do so.^[1] The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was among the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States.^[2]

Following Maine's lead, prohibition laws were soon passed in the states of Delaware, Ohio, Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York; however, all but one were repealed.^[3] The debate over prohibition increased in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as the drys, including the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the National Prohibition Party, the Anti-Saloon League, and others, continued to support temperance and prohibition legislation, while the wets opposed it.^[3] By 1913 nine states had statewide prohibition and 31 others had local option laws, placing more than 50 percent of the United States population under some form of alcohol prohibition.^[3]

Following two unsuccessful attempts at national prohibition legislation (one in 1913 and the other in 1915), Congress approved a resolution on December 19, 1917, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, transportation, and importation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.^[4] The resolution was sent to the states for ratification and became the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On January 8, 1918, Mississippi became the first state to ratify the amendment and on January 16, 1919, Nebraska became the 36th state to do so, securing its passage with the required three-fourths of the states.^[5] By the end of February 1919, only three states remained as hold-outs to ratification: New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island.^[3]

The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was enacted on October 18, 1919. Prohibition in the United States went into effect on January 17, 1920.^[3] Nationwide prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment on February 20 and its ratification on December 5.^[6]

List of formerly dry states

This table lists the effective dates each state went dry and any dates of repeal that do not coincide with the end of national prohibition in 1933.

State	Dry date	Repeal date	Ref
Maine	1851	1856	^[7]
Vermont	1853	1902	^[8]
Kansas	November 23, 1880	1948	^[9]^[10]
Iowa	July 27, 1882	1894	^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]
North Dakota	November 2, 1889	1932
South Dakota	November 2, 1889
Oklahoma	September 17, 1907	April 7, 1959 ^[a]	^[15]^[16]
Georgia	January 1, 1908	1938	^[17] ^[18]
Mississippi	December 31, 1908	1966	^[10]
North Carolina	January 1, 1909	1937	^[10]^[19]
Tennessee	July 1, 1909	1939	^[10]^[20]
Alabama	July 1, 1915		^[10]
Oregon	January 1, 1916		^[10]
West Virginia	July 1, 1914		^[10]
Washington	January 1, 1916		^[10]
Montana	December 31, 1918		^[10]
Nebraska	May 1, 1917		^[10]
Indiana	1918		^[21]
Michigan	April 30, 1918		^[10]
Florida	December 9, 1918
Kentucky	November 1919^[22]		^[23]
Texas	May 1919	1935	^[24]
Virginia	November 1, 1916		^[10]
South Carolina	December 31, 1915		^[10]
Idaho	January 1, 1916		^[10]
Colorado	January 1, 1916		^[10]
Arkansas	January 1, 1916		^[10]
Arizona	January 1, 1915		^[10]

Notes

^ Beer was legalized in 1933

References

^ James H. Madison (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920–1945. The History of Indiana. Vol. 5. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. p. 40.
^ Henry Stephen Clubb (1856). The Maine Liquor Law: Its Origin, History, and Results, Including a Life of Hon. Neal Dow. Fowler and Wells, for the Maine Law Statistical Society. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Jane McGrew. "History of Alcohol Prohibition". National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ "Prohibition wins in Senate, 47 to 8" (PDF). New York Times. December 19, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ See U.S. Const. art. V.
^ "Amendments 11–27". US National Archives.
^ Kat Eschner (2017-06-02). "Why Was Maine the First State to Try Prohibition?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
^ "Prohibition & Temperance". Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
^ "Kansas Liquor Laws" (PDF). Kansas Legislative Research Department. February 24, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1917. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1917. p. 8.
^ "Prohibition Rule: Murder in Sioux City". Wild West Magazine. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
^ "Original Gangsters: The Iowa City Beer Riots of 1884". Little Village Magazine. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
^ "Sioux City's Prohibition Past Fascinates Historians". The Sioux City Journal. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
^ "Beer Business Has Been In-and-Out Venture Here, but Whisky Has Flowed Freely Much of the Time". Sioux City Journal. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
^ Jimmie Franklin. "Prohibition". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
^ "Prohibition is repealed". Oklahoma Digital Prairie. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
^ Stephen Fowler (2018-03-08). "A Brief History of Alcohol (And the Lack Thereof) in the State of Georgia". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
^ Kaylynn Washnock (2020-07-20). "Prohibition in Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
^ Patrick Horn, "The Temperance Movement in North Carolina"
^ Tennessee Encyclopedia, "The Temperance in Tennessee"
^ Passed in 1917, subsequent attempts to overturn the law failed in 1918, when a court ruled Indiana's statewide prohibition law as constitutional and the state went dry. See Jason S. Lantzer (2009). 'Prohibition is Here to Stay': The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in Indiana. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-0-268-03383-5.
^ Date the state prohibition law was passed.
^ Jim Warren (2011-10-18). "Revisiting Prohibition: Kentucky was ahead of the times". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
^ The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1918. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1918. p. 8.

[15] Beer was legalized in 1933

[1] James H. Madison (1982). Indiana Through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920–1945. The History of Indiana. Vol. 5. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. p. 40.

[2] Henry Stephen Clubb (1856). The Maine Liquor Law: Its Origin, History, and Results, Including a Life of Hon. Neal Dow. Fowler and Wells, for the Maine Law Statistical Society. Retrieved 2013-10-23.

[McGrew-3] Jane McGrew. "History of Alcohol Prohibition". National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[4] "Prohibition wins in Senate, 47 to 8" (PDF). New York Times. December 19, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[5] See U.S. Const. art. V.

[6] "Amendments 11–27". US National Archives.

[7] Kat Eschner (2017-06-02). "Why Was Maine the First State to Try Prohibition?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2013-05-08.

[8] "Prohibition & Temperance". Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership. Retrieved 2024-05-08.

[9] "Kansas Liquor Laws" (PDF). Kansas Legislative Research Department. February 24, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2014.

[APM17-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1917. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1917. p. 8.

[11] "Prohibition Rule: Murder in Sioux City". Wild West Magazine. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 2013-03-27.

[12] "Original Gangsters: The Iowa City Beer Riots of 1884". Little Village Magazine. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-27.

[13] "Sioux City's Prohibition Past Fascinates Historians". The Sioux City Journal. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2013-03-27.

[14] "Beer Business Has Been In-and-Out Venture Here, but Whisky Has Flowed Freely Much of the Time". Sioux City Journal. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-27.

[16] Jimmie Franklin. "Prohibition". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture. Retrieved 2024-05-10.

[17] "Prohibition is repealed". Oklahoma Digital Prairie. Retrieved 2024-05-10.

[18] Stephen Fowler (2018-03-08). "A Brief History of Alcohol (And the Lack Thereof) in the State of Georgia". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 2024-05-12.

[19] Kaylynn Washnock (2020-07-20). "Prohibition in Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-05-12.

[20] Patrick Horn, "The Temperance Movement in North Carolina"

[21] Tennessee Encyclopedia, "The Temperance in Tennessee"

[22] Passed in 1917, subsequent attempts to overturn the law failed in 1918, when a court ruled Indiana's statewide prohibition law as constitutional and the state went dry. See Jason S. Lantzer (2009). 'Prohibition is Here to Stay': The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in Indiana. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-0-268-03383-5.

[23] Date the state prohibition law was passed.

[24] Jim Warren (2011-10-18). "Revisiting Prohibition: Kentucky was ahead of the times". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

[APM18-25] The Anti-Prohibition Manual: A Summary of Facts and Figures Dealing with Prohibition, 1918. Cincinnati, Ohio: National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers. 1918. p. 8.

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