Prohibition:The Roaring (or meowing) Twenties
Prohibition had a lasting effect on the nation, that is true, but like many of my classmates I do not feel that the changes that the Volstead Act made to our country were positive ones. I would like to give you some of the numerous facts I've learned about the 18th Amendment, that might persuade you to agree with me on the understanding that Prohibition did nothing to help our country. First of all, let us go over the things of which Prohibition was meant to resolve. Our nation's leaders thought alcohol was the basis for all things that were decadent, and thus thought that by banning alcohol, there would be a decline in the immoral activities going on in America. Let me ask you the question now. What exactly were these alleged "immoral activities" that were so disrupting to our society in the 1920's? Crime is pretty much the only corrupt act that is coming to mind. Prohibition was undertaken to slow the crime rates that were associated with alcohol. Reality check!Prohibition was completely unenforceable, and by outlawing liquor, th
I think that after our government questioned our ethics is when we began to question our leaders and their ability. Bootleggers, or manufacturers of illegal alcohol, formed their own organizations, which turned into gangs of a sort. The fact that people weren't supposed to drink made it all that more appealing, and some citizens realized that this ban could be turned into an easy profit. Kids can overdose on drugs, and drugs brings the wealth down because the people who are selling them on the black market aren't working with the rest of the country for our economy. Banning alcohol has never worked in our history, and I am convinced that it will not work in our future either. Statistics show that although the amount of beer drank by the public went down (due to high pricing), consumption of more intoxicating drinks, arrests, homicides, and the number of convicts in a federal prison were all factors that increased dramatically during the Prohibition era. I believe that there was a reason that people drank while alcohol was banned, and that reason is because they knew that the activities they were participating in were illegal. The paper, "Prohibition in the 1920's:Thirteen Years That Damaged America" written by, Catherine H. The pre-prohibition period's crime rate was miniscule in comparison to the figures collected during prohibition.
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