# National Archives lesson, "The Volstead Act" (Educator Resources)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-lesson-the-volstead-act/

National Archives teaching lesson pairing the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, a Bureau of Prohibition letter on transporting liquor from California to Washington, the proclamation of repeal and the Twenty-first Amendment resolution. A finding aid to records filed here.

The National Archives Educator Resources lesson "The Volstead Act" pairs the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, a Bureau of Prohibition letter about transporting liquor from California to Washington, a still drawing, a 1919 letter from Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, the Presidential proclamation of repeal and the Twenty-first Amendment resolution. The page links each document to DocsTeach. The activities page's footer reads "last reviewed on February 24, 2017."

This page works as a finding aid to records filed here: the enrolled Volstead Act (NARA 299827), the California-to-Washington letter (298430), the Twenty-first Amendment resolution (596379) and the repeal proclamation draft (122179508). The DocsTeach pages for the Volstead Act and the repeal proclamation returned an HTTP 429 error or a human-verification page and were not read; only the DocsTeach Twenty-first Amendment page was opened.

## Sources

- National Archives, Educator Resources: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act