changes in the way people lived. For a while in the United States

people lived as though their reputation mattered more than anything,

and letting go and having fun were not the appropriate things,

especially for woman to do. With the many changes came one of great

importance that actually made American citizens appear more innocent

Prohibition in the 1920's came hard to many Americans, mostly

men. The banning of selling, making, and transporting alcohol was

enforced through the Volstead Act. Effective on January 16, 1920, at

12:00 pm, the Volstead Act was the start of a new experiment in the

United States. The chief prohibition leaders Mr. Volstead, Mr. Bryan,

Mr. Wheeler, and Mr. Sheppard all gathered at the First Congregational

Church to watch the act become legal.

Prohibition and the Volstead Act were induced to reduce crime

oblems, reduce the tax burden created by

they will be replaced with unknown or dangerous substances, and will

of Prohibition" by Richard Cowan. That law states that the more

bar, but illegally. Bootleggers, who made their own alcohol and ran it

changed it once again for the bad. Although consumption of alcohol fell

The whole point of Prohibition was to decrease the consumption

prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.

1934. Today Alcoholics Anonymous and other drug counseling centers

through Prohibition made society better off. Prohibition had great

found that the quantity of alcohol purchased may have fallen 20 percent

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