18th Amendment To The Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in January 1919 and executed in January 1920. It banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors”. This amendment was the finishing touch of decades of realization and fulfillment by organizations such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, and was also built upon the dry laws of eighteen states. The Prohibition Amendment had heavy consequences. It categorized the brewing and distilling of alcohol as illegal. It then went on and expanded state and federal governments, inspired new forms of sociability between men and women, and suppressed elements of immigrant and working-class culture. During the Prohibition era’s initial years, amendment supporters were delighted by a drop in arrests for drunkenness,
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These stats seemed to prove without flaw that their campaign was a success. It then suggested that America’s future might continue to be successful; which would include happier families, fewer industrial accidents, and a superior moral tone(1920’s Prohibition).
The people's defiance to prohibition laws continued to rise and took the amendment’s advocates by surprise. People who could afford the high price of bootleg liquor rushed to speakeasies and gin joints. These establishments could be quite entrancing, where as before prohibition saloons had seldom welcomed women. The new versions of nightclubs invited both the bob-haired “flapper” and her “sheik” to drink cocktails, smoke, and dance to jazz. Working-class consumption of liquor migrated from saloons to their homes. “Bathtub gin”
These stats seemed to prove without flaw that their campaign was a success. It then suggested that America’s future might continue to be successful; which would include happier families, fewer industrial accidents, and a superior moral tone(1920’s Prohibition).
The people's defiance to prohibition laws continued to rise and took the amendment’s advocates by surprise. People who could afford the high price of bootleg liquor rushed to speakeasies and gin joints. These establishments could be quite entrancing, where as before prohibition saloons had seldom welcomed women. The new versions of nightclubs invited both the bob-haired “flapper” and her “sheik” to drink cocktails, smoke, and dance to jazz. Working-class consumption of liquor migrated from saloons to their homes. “Bathtub gin”