The 18th Amendment And The Era Of Social Reform

On January 16 of 1920, The 18th amendment went into effect. The 18th amendment restricted the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition, as this time came to be known, did not end until December 5, 1933, when the 21st amendment was passed and ratified, ending National Prohibition. Supporters of Prohibition believed that it would help control social problems and economic problems as well. What Prohibition did was the totally opposite, Prohibition became a failure. Prohibition led to an increase in organize crime because violent criminals rose to powers, alcoholic-related crimes increased, and more politicians and police officials became corrupt.

“For those Americans who did not want to go to the effort of making their own liquor, an army of bootleggers, moonshiners, and rumrunners was available to supply the nation with all the booze its citizens could drink” (Hanson). Americans could just buy alcohol from bootleggers, moonshiners, and rumrunners if they did not want to make it themselves because they could find an alcohol seller anywhere. “The Eighteenth Amendment was intended to reduce drinking by abolishing the businesses that made and sold alcohol: breweries, distillers, winemakers, wholesale sellers, and retail establishments such as saloons” (Hanson). The Eighteenth Amendment was made to stop alcohol from getting on the streets but it did no use so they got rid of the Eighteenth Amendment. The temperance movement and the prohibition on alcohol helped stop most of the drinking in the United States of America.

On December 18 1917 the 18th amendment which banned the sale of any alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic content greater than 2.75% was proposed by the United States Senate. On January 17 1919 the amendment became ratified. At first Americans were in agreement with this amendment because Dry activists reasoned that the barley which was used in beer brewing could be made into bread to feed American soldiers. People became desperate

The 18th amendment was the banning of making, selling, distribution, and possession of alcohol. This amendment was ratified on January 29th, 1919(Rebman9). Many people were for the ratification of the 18th amendment, many were also against the ratification. This ratification however caused for the modifying of cars to run faster which would lead into running from the cops. The people who ran from cops were usually delivering alcohol to places or people. There were also secret bars, and places to hangout to drink alcohol without cops knowing known as “speak easies”. Speak easies were hidden on side-streets, or alleyways in underground buildings or dugout buildings. This helped raise the crime rates

The 18th Amendment was removed from the Constitution and replaced by the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. It was added because the government was also suffering from the Great Depression at that time. By removing Prohibition, the government would get taxes from alcohol sales, jobs would be created, and it would decrease the costs of law enforcement for Prohibition. The 18th Amendment was the only amendment that was ever abolished in the U.S. Constitution. An amendment is supposed to stay in the Constitution forever and acts as a law that is protected by the federal government. When the 18th Amendment was removed, it shows that the government thinks that it wasn’t effective. Organized crime made money from selling the alcohol and increased crime throughout U.S. After years, lawmakers agreed that prohibition was not effective but also dangerous to many laws and caused many crimes concerning the safety of the citizens. Thousands were called back to work for alcohol companies. More than 5,000 new jobs are predicted as a result of repeal and many celebrated the downfall of Prohibition. After 13 years trying to stop use of alcohol among the citizens, Prohibition was not success, but rather

In 1919 the Constitution of the United States issued the 18th amendment, enforced into law as the National Prohibition Act of 1920. Prohibition is the banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcohol, including beer and wine. This amendment was repealed with the passing of the 21st amendment to the constitution, allowing the possession of alcohol in the United States. In the City of Washington on Monday, December 5th, 1932 the 21st amendment document included the reestablished rights of the citizens restricted by the 18th amendment. (Appendix II) The 18th amendment was the first and only amendment repealed by the constitution, allowing people to possess, sell, and buy their own alcohol.

There were three main reasons which caused Americans to change their mind about the 18th Amendment: during prohibition the homicide rates increased rapidly, the people who made the laws were disobeying it (many who supported prohibition thought it only applied to hard liquor, not wine and beer too, so many people, even Congressmen continued to drink wine and beer), and bootleggers were selling liquor illegally with no taxes were being collected. The first reason Americans changed their mind on Prohibition was the homicide rates increased rapidly. During the 14 years of Prohibition (1919-1933) the homicide rate per 100,000 people steadily

Prohibition! Why was it repealed? In 1919 the 18th amendment was ratified to make alcohol illegal. Yet, 14 years later in 1933 it was repealed. The question is why did America change its mind. America changed its mind because of three reasons, criminal activity, lack of enforcement, and loss of money.

Economic desperation had no small part in advocacy for repeal of the 18th Amendment. Conservatives who pushed for prohibition in the start of the prohibition movement. This included American farmers who pushed for prohibition and now pushed for repeal because of the negative economic effects on agriculture. Before the 1920’s amendment of the Volstead Act, 14% of federal, state, and local tax revenues were derived from profits of the alcohol industry.

January 1920, the opening year of the 18th Amendment that sought banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” within the United States and its US territories. Many Americans relate this era with speakeasy, public law breaking, and a public disregard for the establishment of prohibition. The 18th Amendment was the first constitutional amendment that sought to limit the rights of citizens and their rights to drink. This would become an attempt that many would soon come to realize as one of the greatest failures in law enforcement in American History. For if an American wants to drink, those with the American spirit for rebellion will surly offer him one.

The Eighteenth Amendment, created during President Wilson Era, prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. The Eighteenth Amendment was created because of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) that said that drinking alcohol causes a lot of problems in the society, but the WCTU couldn't establish any law for the prohibition of alcohol. So the Anti-Saloon League (ASL) was created to advance the ideas of the WCTU. The ASL convinced politicians to support the Women’s Christian Temperance Union using pressure politics. Finally, on January 17th, 1920, Eighteenth Amendment was created to prohibit the commerce of alcohol. With this Amendment, the quantity of deaths, suicides, traffic accidents, family arguments, aggression

In the article “Prohibition” it reveals that the 18th Amendment outlawed the making of, transporting and selling of alcohol in the United States, which was difficult to administer. This law was meant to help improve things such as crime, but it instead brought the opposite. With the increase of violence, crime, and bootlegging, Prohibition ended in 1933 with the 21st Amendment added.

The 18th amendment was ratified by congress on January 16, 1919 in which the selling and distribution of “intoxicating liquors” was banned. That was the start of what many called the dry decade in the United States. Norman H. Clark’s Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition illustrates the struggles to make the dry decade possible and the consequences that followed it. The 235 page text describes how the Anti-Saloon League was determined to make prohibition possible and the struggles they had to overcome. As well as what directly followed once it was a reality.

In the same year, the Congress submitted the 18th Amendment. This had banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors, for state ratification. Even though the Congress had stipulated a seven-year time limit for the process. The amendment had received support of the necessary three-quarters of US states in only eleven months.

Social reform is a change that happen over a long spread of time. In the early 19th century, Americans had issues one of the main being the men. Every weekend they would go blow their work check and get blackout drunk. The interesting part of this is that no one realized the toll it took on their bodies, or they just didn't care about it, as N. Currier said “The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave.” He also shows a pic of men going through the stages of their lives starting at thm having fun with friends, which slowly goes into suicidal thought which leaded to death, or death by alcohol poisoning. This was the start of the temperance movement. The temperance movement was by the women who did not want to see their husbands