Alcohol Prohibition

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Alcohol Prohibition
By Cadet Her
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From 1920 until 1934, the United States'
Government tried to create an American society
where the evils of alcohol would never appear
again within the legal confines of our society.
For fourteen years, no matter how old you were,
it was no longer legal to possess, distribute,
transport, import, or consume alcohol in the
United States.
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By thinking that this would reduce the amount of
crime and violence in the United States only led
people to more violence and crime. The reason why
the government finally made the law of illegal
alcohol was because anti-alcohol groups were
becoming such a problem. Reducing crime and
violence were the main goals of this amendment to
the constitution. This law was quickly discovered
to be a failure.
This beer raid in 1926 apparently stopped the
flow of all alcohol...
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The main problem with the 18th amendment was the
fact that it only prohibited the "manufacture,
sale, and transportation" of alcohol. The 18th
amendment did not abolish the consumption of
spirited beverages. The only ones to fear
punishment from the law were the providers of
intoxicating liquors to the thirsty. This would
become the seed of organized crime and
bootlegging across the newly expanding country.
People were willing to drink, and the few willing
to provide reaped the profits.
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Al Capone is America's best known gangster and
the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law
and order in the United States during the 1920s
Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the
illegal activities that lent Chicago its
reputation as a lawless city.
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Under the 18th amendment and the Volstead Act,
which provided for the enforcement of
Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, and
sale of alcohol were prohibited by federal law.
The Amendment was popular for many years, but
beginning in the late 1920s support began to
erode. In 1933 the 21st Amendment repealed the
18th, ending Prohibition.
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