Prohibition 1920 Sources Question

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Prohibition 1920 Sources Question

Prohibition in the United States was a measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution took away licences to do business from the brewers. Prohibition was introduced to help reduce alcohol abuse, to lower the amount of crime, to help marriages, and for religious and social reasons, and, because at this time, there was hatred towards Germany, and Germany was also a country renowned for producing large amounts of alcohol. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve.

1.Source A is useful for studying the spread of prohibition in the United Sates.

This source was written by Martin Gilbert to show the spread of prohibition throughout America. This source was included in an American History Atlas, which makes it useful. This source was written in 1968, which makes it 35 years after prohibition was officially abolished. The source shows the spread of prohibition from 1845 - 1933. It shows in 1845 the states that had local prohibition, the territories, in which, the sale of alcohol was forbidden in 1845, and