Do these sources support the view that the failure of Prohibition was inevitable?

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Do these sources support the view that the failure of Prohibition was inevitable?

In the 1910’s, a lot more pressure was put on the American Government to ban alcohol. Posters and protesting marches were very common throughout the 1910’s. Finally in 1920, the prohibition law was passed this meant the making, selling and transporting of alcohol was banned.

I think Prohibition was bound to fail as so many people disliked as it went on, and from then on you knew that it was going to fail due to the lack of public support. Prohibition actually caused a lot more crime, which has been highlighted in the other sources (A, B, E etc) and made drinking matters worse throughout the 1920’s.

I have studied 10 sources on prohibition and most of them suggest that prohibition be bound to fail than succeed.

Such as in the 2nd Paragraph on Source A, which says that no other law had produced so much crime and had gone against the ‘desires of so many Americans’.

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The Source also says that it had created the ‘greatest criminal boom in American History’.

Source B also supports this view, as it suggests that Gangsters used Prohibition for big violent business. Also that a huge amount of speakeasies had been found in New York at the time of 1928.

Source E also states how much prohibition had failed, as a wealthy industrialist said that by 1932 drinking had increased, that the speakeasies had replaced the saloon’s.

This view is again support by Source B. He also says that there was a ‘vast army of lawbreakers’ who caused a ...

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