Prohibition: The Temperance Movement

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Prohibition popularly known as The Noble Experiment, in that it was, fell short of its goals drastically. The thirteen years prohibition was active in the United States are thought to have done the most damage to the country. The infancy of prohibition was known as the Temperance Movement planted the idea over 100 years prior, in result prohibition was added to the constitution becoming the Eighteenth Amendment. Nevertheless The Noble Experiment came to an end when the Twenty First Amendment was added repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
The temperance movement dates back to as early as 1800 with a central goal to cure society from the evils of alcohol.(Temperance Social) Everywhere across the country temperance groups appeared when people …show more content…

America's favorite pastime was abated. The Eighteenth amendment was passed, and all importing, exporting, transporting and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor was put to an end (Prohibition). The amendment was passed in congress on January 16,1919, but did not go into effect until one year afterwards. Along with the passing of the Eighteenth amendment, the Volstead act was passed on October 23,1919 . Named after a Republican representative from Minnesota, Andrew Volstead. The Volstead Act or better well known as the “National Prohibition Act” deemed intoxicating liquor as anything with an alcohol content percent over 0.5, not including alcohol for medical and sacramental purposes (Alcohol Prohibition). The act also set up the boundaries for law enforcement. Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol consequently, minimizing crime, death and poverty rates. …show more content…

This amendment repealed the 18th amendment as well as the Volstead act. Before the 21st could pass states were required to vote. Utah was the last state to approve of the amendment. It took until 1966 for all states to rid prohibition, since then drinking laws are up to the states. The 18th amendment was the one and only amendments repealed in American history (The Constitution of the US). The primary goal of the 18th amendment was to lower crime and poverty rates, although, an abounding amount of Americans believed that it actually increased crime rate. Alcohol was made illegal but, it was not gone in the slightest. The ban of alcohol opened the door for organized crime. Bootleggers, people who unlawfully manufacture and sell alcohol. Rum runners, alcohol smugglers going across state lines. Speakeasies, secret drinking bars, popped up all over the place.(1920’s prohibition: moonshine) “At one time, there were thought to be over 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone, New Jersey claimed there were 10 times as many as before the amendment, and Rochester, New York, twice the number. The same became true all over the nation.” (Speakeasies of the Prohibition era). It seems as if husbands lightened up on beating their families, but the mafia starting gang fights everywhere was not favorable. Poverty rates as well did not diminish as they predicted. Citizens blamed it on the

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