The Causes Of Prohibition

In 1919, The US ratified the 18th Amendment which is declared illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages. Between from 1920 to 1933 America has promulgated prohibition who drunk because most men drunk in most times even during break time off work. They gradually lost their control and taking abuse, crime on their children. A lot of problems happened in the family like violence, fighting, and the worse thing is the divorce. Drunken men who did not work at all would not be able to afford, provide, and care for their families. America repealed Prohibition for three main reasons during this time: the Volstead Act because it was a law, the act of Congress that helped to prevent people from selling alcohol, illegal but it failed, Progressive Movement because it showed how many serious problems happened behind drinking that affected to life, and social evils of drinking. While there are three main causes, the most significant cause the repeal of Prohibition in America was social evils or consequences of drinking because in (Doc. B) homicides increased which made crime raised and thousands of Americans killed, the scenes of the US government (Doc.D) because the governor violated the law, and depression (Doc. A) because Uncle Sam, the US government worked with gangsters, racketeer, bootlegger, and dope seller.

Between 1900 and 1913 more Americans began to drink more and more alcohol with the production of beer jumping from 1.2 million to 2 billion gallons; three times more alcohol than the average American drinks now.1 Prohibition was a movement sparked by women since women thought they were the ones who suffered the most from the cause of alcohol and women though that alcohol was a threat to a happy family. Women wanted to pass prohibition because many men would go to saloons and go home and be abusive towards their wives and children. Women and other groups eventually got 46 of the 48 states to ratify the 18th amendment on January 16, 1919.2 The 18th amendment on article one says, "...the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."3 The first article on the 18th amendment is saying that the sale, making, or even bringing liquor into the United States or any of the United States' territory will now be illegal. Prohibition began to show its weakness right away when the United Sates government did not show much support. After the first year of prohibition the American people started to show less support and even led to organized crime. In 1933, the United States Constitution was amended to repeal the 18th amendment in the form of the 21st amendment.4 Even

The Prohibition Era of the 1920’s was an infamous time for the United States. However, despite the roar and boom or the twenties, prohibition did little to benefit Americans or the country itself. The ban of the make, transportation, and sale of alcohol only caused an increase in crime and decrease in public health and safety with practically no economic benefit.

Prohibition had existed way before the whole country grew into chaos and terror trying to ban alcohol throughout United States. It was the act of banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol. In the early 1700s, many colonists directed Prohibition towards the Native Americans. Colonists created local laws that prevented people from selling or trading alcohol to them. They were concerned with their behavior due to alcohol. Although there were laws with the ideas of Prohibition, the laws were not enforced. This allowed liquor trade to continue and created a critical effect on the use of alcohol by Native Americans. In the 1900s, Prohibition did well trying to stop the promotion and the process of alcohol, but caused disruption, crime, and confusion

went up and more people were homeless and prisons became full. The courts and prisons

The late comedian W.C jokingly said,” Once, during the Prohibition, I was forced to live on for days on nothing but food and water. Even Though, he said this as a joke it was true for majority of the public. The days before the 18th amendment was passed many depended upon liquor. At one point the use of alcohol became abuse. Then on January 16, 1919 the 18th Amendment was ratified so alcohol could not take over the life of Americans, but it didn't go quite as planned. The Prohibition banned the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol and the desperate ones found loopholes in this simple amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment was ultimately passed to keep a healthy working society and it was repealed because of the increasing organized crime and illegal activities all over the country.

The main cause of Prohibition was religious views coming into the light. Groups such as the Protestant Evangelical had many views similar to all the others when it came to alcoholic beverages. The only difference is that when it came down to it the Evangelical were more likely to help clean up a person who was used to over drinking, this was not the case of Temperance groups. They felt that they had more of an obligations to help the children and wives whose lives had been affected by what they called “drunkards”. Although there was this big difference between the two it did not stop them from coming together to try and fix what they felt needed fixing. These religious groups had the idea that they would start with cleaning up people and then move on to their idea of helping the whole nation. To try and change people's lives the Evangelicals would state verses from the

Alongside corruption and women’s efforts playing a large part in the Prohibition movement was violence alcohol consumption harbored. Alcohol led to an increased rate of domestic abuse as well as crimes such as theft, murder, and rape. The American Medical Association, at their annual meeting [Doc B] said, “[Alcohol’s] use in therapeutics, as a tonic, or a stimulant or as a food has not scientific basis… should be discouraged.” The AMA recognized that alcohol was detrimental to human behaviors and therefore should not have been consumed. This idea, one of the many, at the forefront of the prohibition movement led to the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment. Thomas D. West noted the number of dangers alcohol produces. He described his worries

Imagine having something dear to you, that you and your elders have had for centuries, taken away by the government. That is what the 18th Amendment is and that special thing is Alcohol. The 18th amendment was ratified on January 16th 1919, but it wouldn’t go into effect until January 20th 1920. Ever since Colonists came to America, alcohol has played a major role in the lifestyle of Americans. The 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment, or its affect was no more. This took place in 1933. The 18th Amendment was controversial because the 18th Amendment both positively, and negatively affected the nation, the amendment came about by people who wanted to prohibit alcohol, and the amendment had more cons to it than pros.

The prohibition of alcohol was a mistake that the United States government made in the 1920s. Making alcohol illegal led to a decrease in tax revenue and an increase in government spending. The government started Prohibition to produce more money, but it was actually lost. Prohibition also led to an increase in organized crime. Citizens wanted alcohol, so they tried to do whatever it took to obtain it. Lastly, the prohibition of alcohol caused some government officials to be corrupt. The government officials chose to function off of their own self interests rather than what the government wanted them to do. Overall, Prohibition was a waste of time for the United States government and its citizens.

Prohibitionists advocated the complete removal of alcohol from society. As a result the 18th amendment was passed, 18th amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol across the United States. However, as a result of making alcohol illegal , people began to brew whiskey, wine and beer at home to a extent that people were smuggling alcohol

Prohibition, the ban of alcoholic beverages, had started as the “women’s temperance movement”, a movement that simply called for the banning of all alcoholic beverages because of it was immoral. Later, many women began calling for prohibition because of how it was effecting them at home, with their husbands. Domestic abuse became very prominent in a household because many men after work would visit these saloons or bars and just drink as a coping method many times bringing out the anger in them and once they got home letting it out on their wives and children. All this lead to the passing of the Prohibition Act which made the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal. This decision caused a split in American society basically dividing those who were against the consumption of alcohol agreeing and supporting this law, and then obviously angered those enjoyed drinking alcoholic beverages and did so on a regular basis. Unfortunately, this act eventually branched into the creation of illegal bars, speakeasies, and nevertheless the illegal consumption of alcohol all across cities in the United States. Realizing how counterproductive this law ended up being in the long run, the United States

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.

Some states such as New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts did not enforce the prohibition act of 1920, causing funds to drop to the states for law enforcement agencies(GILDER). The prohibition Caused the rise of organized crime in the United States. Prohibition stated the creation of toxic moonshine, bootleggers used lead coils and lead soldering putting lead in moonshine(PEARSON). Others put additives in moonshine such as iodine and creosote causing blindness or even death. Over 12,000 people died from toxic moonshine Al Capone made over 60 million dollars from Bootlegging that’s 60 million dollars other US citizens lose. Many Bootleggers used Industrial alcohol in Products. The Federal Government started putting more poisonous chemicals in industrial alcohol causing over 10,000 deaths from consumption(PEARSON).Overall there are more negative effects of prohibition in the 1920’s. From poisonous alcohol to enforcement budget cuts it is all negative and is why prohibition failed. Even though prohibition stopped some americans from drinking alcohol it created a new door for new kinds of alcohol to come in to the US. Prohibition is bad in my opinion because it caused unnecessary deaths in america. That sets a final ending to the 18th Amendment in the 1920’s and forever

Prohibition of Alcohol in America was introduced in 1920 with the 18th amendment of the constitution and was finally revoked in 1933. Prohibition was always considered a failure, due to the way it was policed, the fact the American people at the time liked to drink and the fact that alcohol was very easily accessible. Therefore the fact it lasted thirteen years, despite it being obvious within the first five that things were not working, seems incomprehensible. There are a number of factors which worked together to make prohibition last as long as it did. The most important being morale reasons behind introducing it at first, but the popularity of prohibition, the time it to repeal a law and the fact it