18th+amendment+and+politics

Politically the 18th amendment was issued because many votes were won in rural areas because politicians promised to back up prohibation, witch helped those politicians to win the election.

The volstead act was issued to reinforce the 18th amendment but was vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson (largely on technical grounds, because it also covered wartime prohibition) but overriddin by Congress on the same day, Oct,28,1919. The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act".