This Day in History:, FDR Signs the Beer
and Wine Revenue Act.
March 22, 1933.
After 14 years of Prohibition, the Beer and Wine Revenue
Act finally allowed the sale and government taxation of
alcoholic beverages with no more than 3.2% alcohol.
The act was part of FDR's New Deal,
a series of economic measures intended
to pull America out of The Great Depression.
It was one of his first actions as president.
Its passage signaled the repeal of the
18th Amendment and the Volstead Act,
which prohibited the sale of alcohol in the U.S.
While a victory for the powerful temperance
movement, Prohibition increased illegal trafficking
of alcohol. It had little effect on its consumption.
Later that year in December,
the 21st Amendment was passed,
bringing the era of Prohibition to an end
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It's more than 150 years since the American Civil War, but in Oscar-nominated director Alex Garland's new film the present-day United States is divided - and the.. Sky News
This Day in History: , The Civil War Begins.
April 12, 1861.
Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, SC,
is attacked by Confederate shore batteries
under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard.
After being battered
for 34 straight hours,
U.S. Major Robert Anderson
surrendered the fort.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
called for 75,000 volunteer
soldiers two days later.
He had been in office
for barely more than a month.
South Carolina, a slave state,
had issued an "Ordinance of Secession"
earlier in December, dissolving its ties with the Union.
The following four years of war between
the North and South would be the bloodiest
in American history, resulting in the deaths
of more than 620,000 Confederate and Union soldiers
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This Day in History:, Robert E. Lee Surrenders.
April 9, 1865.
Surrounded with no possibility of escape,
the Confederate General surrendered his troops to
Union General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox, VA.
Lee met Grant in full dress attire at 1 p.m.
in the parlor of the Wilmer McLean home.
His surrender ended the U.S. Civil War,
the bloodiest war in American history.
Having known each other from the Mexican War,
the two spoke briefly before Grant wrote out the terms.
As part of the terms, Lee's 28,000 starving troops,
who had been cut off from supplies, would be pardoned
and fed Union rations.
The solemn ceremony ended with Grant telling his officers,
"The war is over. The Rebels are our countrymen again."
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Director Alex Garland admits to THR on the red carpet of the Civil War premiere that he feels strange releasing this film during an election year. Plus, he shares his reasoning for paring up California and Texas.
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