18th Amendment Essay
Prohibition
The 18th Amendment:
It was written to prohibited Alcohol and drugs coming in the USA and being sold there. Prohibition was a time period in the USA where manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It was a time where it was characterized by speakeasies, glamor, and gangsters and period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. After the American Revolution drinking Alcohol was on the rise. To have a control over this problem societies were organized as a part of a new temperance movement which was used to dissuade people from becoming intoxicated. “The temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society’s ill, especially crime and murder” saloons were a social men who lived in the untamed west (who were viewed by many, especially women) members of the Temperance movement urged to stop husbands from spending the family income on alcohol and to prevent fights in the workplace by those who get drunk during their lunch …show more content…
The Volstead Act: was to clarify the law of alcohol use and manufacture. The Volstead Act stated “beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors" meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume” it also stated that any owning of an item that could manufacture alcohol was illegal and there were specific fines and jail sentences for those who chose to disobey the law.
Gangsters & Speakeasies
During the prohibition people still found ways to drink alcohol most of them would get a prescription from a doctor and at that time the prescription for alcohol use as medicines was a large number, but for those who didn’t have a “good doctor” they turned to the gangsters and they would smuggle rum from the Caribbean or hijack whiskey from Canada and sale it in the USA. The famous gangsters were know by “Al Capone” and they were and still are the most famous gang in this time period.
Attempts to Repeal the 18th
The 18th Amendment:
It was written to prohibited Alcohol and drugs coming in the USA and being sold there. Prohibition was a time period in the USA where manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It was a time where it was characterized by speakeasies, glamor, and gangsters and period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. After the American Revolution drinking Alcohol was on the rise. To have a control over this problem societies were organized as a part of a new temperance movement which was used to dissuade people from becoming intoxicated. “The temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society’s ill, especially crime and murder” saloons were a social men who lived in the untamed west (who were viewed by many, especially women) members of the Temperance movement urged to stop husbands from spending the family income on alcohol and to prevent fights in the workplace by those who get drunk during their lunch …show more content…
The Volstead Act: was to clarify the law of alcohol use and manufacture. The Volstead Act stated “beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors" meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume” it also stated that any owning of an item that could manufacture alcohol was illegal and there were specific fines and jail sentences for those who chose to disobey the law.
Gangsters & Speakeasies
During the prohibition people still found ways to drink alcohol most of them would get a prescription from a doctor and at that time the prescription for alcohol use as medicines was a large number, but for those who didn’t have a “good doctor” they turned to the gangsters and they would smuggle rum from the Caribbean or hijack whiskey from Canada and sale it in the USA. The famous gangsters were know by “Al Capone” and they were and still are the most famous gang in this time period.
Attempts to Repeal the 18th