Prohibition Woes
Booze, parties, flappers, bootlegging, and speakeasies are all terms popularized by the "Roaring Twenties" of America. Such terms sparked into American language by the eighteenth amendment to the United States Constitution calling for the prohibition of alcohol. In January of 1919, the amendment was ratified by a higher percentage of states than any of the previous seventeen amendments (Sebastian Bonafede and Rhiannon Held). The prohibition and temperance movements started as early as the late 1800's, and ran into 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt aided in the passing of the twenty-first amendment. This was the amendment written to repeal the eighteenth all together. National prohibition of alcohol, the noble experiment, which sought to reduce crime and corruption, save social problems, and improve health and hygiene in America. The results of the experiment clearly indicate that it was a miserable failure on all counts. America began to alter its views very quickly about alcohol. Many churches and various other groups felt that alcohol was
the drink of the devil, and was the root to all the numerous problems in America in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately sided with the critics of prohibition and called for the twenty-first amendment to the United States Constitution, and thus ending National Prohibition in 1933. In my opinion, prohibition was not a good decision for Americans. It is clear now, that the supporters of prohibition lost the National Government billions of dollars that would have been collected off the various alcohol taxes. Also limiting society's behavior is and always will be a controversial decision because somewhere within every society there lurks a deviant side. When limitations are placed on the people belonging to any society, this defiant behavior always seems to pop up. The two bickering sides during the prohibition era both saw what they wanted. Advocates for prohibition saw that liquor consumption seemed down, but only because there was no way to track the dollar amount of liquor sold. America seemed to be flouris
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