Prohibition- 13 years that changed america
Alcohol has been around since the ancient time; the Egyptians drank wine and a type of barley malt. Beer was the staple drink for the Egyptians and many other early civilizations. In ancient Egypt a poor worker would have been paid in beer, because of alcohol's age, it cannot easily be taken away. Prohibition is the forbiddance of alcohol production and consumption. In 1920 the American government passed the XVII amendment, which banned all alcohol, excluding alcohol meant for religious and medical purposes. The American citizens did not care, they opened bars and drank anyhow. During an era entitled the "Roaring Twenties" how can one even think of not having alcohol? The twenties were an exciting period, full of radical changes and a new generation called teenagers. Prohibition brought with it an increase of the very thing it was meant to outlaw, alcohol. Many factors led to the start of prohibition. The constant nagging by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which is still around today, was one of the causes that brought on prohibition. Prohibition was aptly called the "women's war," due to the fact that women were the ones who tried to get a bill, later the amendment, passed. The WCTU believes that alcohol causes "bad th
central power countries, including Germany. Many people assumed that all the breweries were in Germany all their money flew to Germany, and thought, " Why should we support the Germans?" Alcohol was said to be an economical, social, and medical problem. The American public was also starting to develop a moral code after the war and alcohol did not fit this code. Because of these problems the United States government created the Volstead Act to ban all drinking alcohol. ings to happen.... Things such as divorce and spousal abuse we blame on alcohol and drunkeness." Another cause was the people of the twenties started to research the affects of alcoholism. They started to discover that alcohol and cigarettes were the cause of Sclerosis. Studies from the twenties also showed that laborers who would get drunk before work, would be the cause of many of the major accidents in factories and on work sites. Because of the recent war people believed that Americans should not support the Prohibition was a huge failure because it caused America to drink more. When something is illegal any human being want to do it more. Prohibition caused a 50 percent increase in alcohol production and a 75 percent increase in consumption. Another contributor to the failure of prohibition was the car, which allowed the new teenagers to leave their parents and be rebellious. In addition to the car, alcohol was now illegal and the reputation was equivalent to marijuana today. Now the teens could go out to an illegal speakeasy and drink the night away. Also the new women, know as flappers, were adding to the spark of rebelliousness. They wore shorter skirts and started to style their hair in, according to the standards of the time, "inappropriate" ways. The speakeasies provided an escape from the toil of the ordinary day. Inside the speakeasies there was always a jazz band playing the music their parents could not stand. The upbeat tone of jazz proved to be the equvilent of punk rock today. People such as Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and Barney Bigard would be compared with modern bands such a
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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