Prohibition In The 1920's

Prohibition is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacturing, storing, transporting, and selling of alcohol. The term can also apply to the period in history of the country during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced. After several years, prohibition became a failure in North America and elsewhere, as rum-running became widespread and organized crime took control of the distribution of alcohol. Distilleries and breweries in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean flourished as their products were either consumed by visiting Americans, or illegally exported to the United States. Chicago has become a notorious haven for prohibition dodgers during the time known as the roaring twenties. Prohibition generally came to an end in the late 1920s and early 1930s in most of

Alcohol consumption was never illegal under federal law. Nationwide prohibition did not begin in the United States until 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States constitution went into effect, and was repealed in 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment. The repeal movement of prohibition in the United States was initiated and financed by the AAPA, Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, who worked to elect Congressmen who agreed to support the repeal. The repeal of prohibition was accomplished with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933. Under its terms, states were allowed to set their own laws for the control of alcohol. Following repeal, public interest in an organized prohibition movement decreased. However, it survived for a while in a few southern and border states. To this day, however, there are still counties and parishes within the United States known as “dry”, where the sale of liquor, only whiskey and wine, now beer, is prohibited. Several such municipalities have adopted liquor by the drink, however, in order to expand tax