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Prohibition...A Waste?


Prohibition is now a waif of a thought in most’s minds but at one
time was a factor on everyone’s mind. It began a movement that later some
believed was a mistake. I cannot tell my opinion, but will simply show you
the history of it. Prohibition has many stories, including, but not
limited to, the founders, the enforcement, and the American public’s
attitude towards it. Prohibition is defined as “The forbidding by law of
the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages”(Mirian-Webster 581). Now,
the Prohibition history starts with the founders, women.
“The leaders of the prohibition movement were alarmed at the
drinking behavior of Americans, and they were concerned that there was ...

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were beginning
to share this hostility toward the saloon and to regard it as the most
dangerous social institution then threatening the family. The Anti-Saloon
League of America (ASL), organized in Ohio, effectively marshaled such
people into political action. State chapters of the ASL endorsed candidates
for public office and demanded of their state governments that the people
be allowed to vote yes or no on the question of continuing to license the
saloons.” (Encarta 1) The ASL held powerful members in Congress and so was
able to pass an amendment for prohibition. This amendment, quickly
ratified, was simply writing on paper without enforcement.
“To enforce the 18th Amendment, Congress passed the National
Prohibition Act, usually called the Volstead Act because Congressman Andrew
Volstead of Minnesota introduced it in 1919. This law defined the
prohibited “intoxicating liquors” as those with an alcoholic content of
more than 0.5 percent, although it made concessions for liquors ...

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Added: 2/8/2006 06:22:32 AM
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