Prohibition came about on the 16th of January 1920and was abolished by 1934, just 14 years later. There were many reasons that this happened.

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Prohibition came about on the 16th of January 1920and was abolished by 1934, just 14 years later. There were many reasons that this happened.Prohibition is the banning of a certain substance from a certain area or country. In America the case was alcohol.Just after the war many anti alcohol and saloon parties had enough evidence to accuse alcohol for the problems plaguing the American public. The Anti-Liquor campaign in America dates back since 1750 when leaders of that period made repeated efforts to discourage the excessive use of distilled spirits. Many religious and political leaders were beginning to see drunkenness as a national curse. Abraham Lincoln said of this period that intoxicating liquor was 'used by everybody, repudiated by nobody' and that it came forth in society 'like the Egyptian angel of death, commissioned to slay if not the first, the fairest born in every family'. The most powerful organization against the consumption of alcohol beverages is the so-called 'Anti-Saloon League' which was founded in Washington D.C. on December 18, 1895. One of its leaders once said, promoting his organization, 'It has not come [...] simply to build a little local sentiment or to secure the passage of a few laws, or yet to vote the saloons from a few hundred towns. These are mere incidents in its progress. It has come to solve the liquor problem.' The organization's motto was 'The saloon must go' and they knew exactly how this was to be accomplished. The League struggled on without great successes. Americans continued to consume the liquor increasingly until the enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, which turned Prohibition into law. The Eighteenth Amendment was devised by Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League and was presented to Congress on January 16, 1920, by Andrew Volstead, congressman from Minnesota. At midnight of the same day all saloons were closed down throughout the United States, and national prohibition descended upon the earth, climaxing a long campaign to forbid the use of liquor within America's boundaries. The eighteenth amendment was " After one year the manufacture, sale or transporting of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, the importing and exporting of such liquors is hereby prohibited"A poster urging the motto " The saloon must go".There were other reason why the Anti Saloon League wanted alcohol banned they feared it was:- Crime producing- Food wasting- Youth corrupting- Home wreakingAnother poster degrading the effects and consequences of alcoholAnother party against the consumption of Alcohol was the "Woman's temperance league"They were a party of women who also disagreed with the problems that were alcohol related and campaigned to get the amendment passed. Dr. Dioclesian Lewis is credited with inspiring women to enter the movement en masse, and militantly.
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"He fought staunchly for total abstinence, but he ridiculed the dogma that liquor was the source of all crime and violently opposed prohibition; in a book called Prohibition a Failure he predicted that it could never be enforced because it violated personal liberty, the "great vital, pivotal fact of human life. Temperance historians created the legend that his father was a drunkard, and pointed out that his maternal grandfather, a Baptist deacon, was also a distiller.But banning alcohol wasn't that simple. Alcohol was more then just a drink, it was a way of life. People needed it for many reasons.A ...

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