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The Jazz AgeJazz Age wasn’t only characterized by new music, new rights, and new dances but also by people who thought nothing was more evil than alcoholic beverages and who amended the ConstitutionConstitution to prohibit “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” ProhibitionProhibition was repealed less than fifteen [50]years later with yet another Amendment, passed after the event that is usually considered to have ended the Jazz Age: the stock market crash in 1929 and the ensuing economic collapse that became known as the Great DepressionGreat Depression. But wouldn’t it be better to end the Jazz Age with a bottle of champagne to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition than with a Great Depression?