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Table of Contents Page 3- Has Prohibition Ended the Use of Alcohol? Page 4- How Are Illegal Activities Surrounding prohibition Affecting the U.S. Page 5- How Are Illegal Activities Surrounding prohibition Affecting the U.S. Page 6- Political Cartoon Page 7- Was prohibition a positive step for the country? Page 8- Was prohibition a positive step for the country? Page 9- Political Cartoon Page 10- Group Editorial Page 11- Citations
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By Leigha Pacha
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What we think about the situation.. The 1900s was a time of momentous occasions, people finally expressing themselves for who they are, taking part of a war and coming out victorious, and most of all the splash of money in the booming economy. At last the United States would be forever proud but after on in the years this foolish act of prohibition does change not only the outside but in the inside as well and along side of this act made the question pop up into everyday lives.. Is prohibition a harmful amendment or helpful and we are here to tell what we think to the public of America. Prohibition has harmed Americans in many ways. Even though the 18th Amendment is supposed to reduce the intake of alcohol, it is really driving alcohol consumption up. Prohibition is also causing lots of gang related crime and is bringing drugs out onto the streets, where people can easily access them. These gangs are also transporting their alcohol across the US illegally and selling it for higher prices. They are also altering genuine liquor and putting in additives which is making the liquor unsafe for people to drink. Prohibition is also causing problems in families such as fighting and divorces due to alcohol. As well as gang related crime, there has also been an increase of murder inside of different gangs. Overall, Prohibition was made to help America, but in the end it is only hurting us. In addition to Prohibition it was truly the limelight for many uneasy actions and low personalities that were brought out and faced towards the public, and many asked the question was prohibition a positive step for the country? and many answered with a strong no.. Many did not know how to handle prohibition when it first came out and that caused slowly but surely more harm than good. Majority of those low personalities that were facing the prohibition law were helpless during the process because they were missing that one thing that seemed to keep everyone on their toes and that was alcohol. With prohibition now in full effect around the country made them (the people) do rash decisions like open speakeasies, have riots out in streets, violent outbursts of fighting, making their own alcohol and that all on its own was illegal. Prohibition wasn't also harming the people it was harming itself.. It was very hard to try to keep it up and running efficiently and when they made this into the amendment they thought this was going to be a healthy environment, clean people lives.. but it only brought them down and with was well known by everyone that it harmed more help grow the environment. Although prohibition ultimately failed because it was creating more problems than it was solving. Their were some ways it was helping by reducing alcohol related problems and accidents, but besides that it made for a more dangerous society rather than a cleaner, healthier society. Mob violence became a problem because of all the bootlegging and rum-running, Federal corruption became a popular way to control the streets and not get in trouble with the law. Many other problems arose as well like overpriced alcohol in speakeasies, and the enforcement of prohibition was not likely to work because of the poor amount of agents. Overall prohibition failed because it caused too many problems and solved too few problems so it was no longer worth it to keep prohibition around. This made many very happy because the transportation and sale of alcohol had become legal again in 1933. Even though that prohibition was eradicated it still changed America forever and the way that Americans live their daily life. Overall, Prohibition has not succeeded in reducing the intake of alcohol, but instead it has caused many more problems across America then the government wished for. It has brought out the harm in the United States then good and what was supposed to be fixed wasn't enough.
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Citations:
Works Cited (Crawford)
Hanson, Erica. The 1920s. San Diego, Lucent Books, 1999. Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Student edition. ed., Rancho Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Lindop, Edmund, and Margaret J. Goldstein. America in the 1920s. Minneapolis, Twenty-First Century Books, 2010. U.S.A. 1920s. Danbury, Grolier, 2005.
Works Cited (McLaskey) Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Student edition. ed., Rancho Cordova, Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2013. Immell, Myra H., et al. America's Decades. San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 2000. LuĚˆsted, Marcia Amidon, and Jennifer K. Keller. The Roaring Twenties: Discover the Era of Prohibition, Flappers, and Jazz. White River Junction, Nomad Press, 2014. O'Neal, Michael. America in the 1920s. New York, Facts On File, 2006.
Works Cited (Pacha) The Jazz Age: The 20s. Rev. ed., Alexandria, Time-Life Books, 2000. Prohibition: The Noble Experiment. www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/noble-experiment-of-prohibition-in-the-u-s/. U.S.A. 1920s. Danbury, Grolier, 2005. 11
Yancey, Diane. Life during the Roaring Twenties. San Diego, Lucent Books, 2002.