Prohibition Woes

Booze, parties, flappers, bootlegging, and speakeasies are all terms popularized by the “Roaring Twenties” of America. Such terms sparked into American language by the eighteenth amendment to the United States Constitution calling for the prohibition of alcohol. In January of 1919, the amendment was ratified by a higher percentage of states than any of the previous seventeen amendments (Sebastian Bonafede and Rhiannon Held). The prohibition and temperance movements started as early as the late 1800’s, and …showed first 75 words of 725 total…

…showed last 75 words of 725 total…was not a good decision for Americans. It is clear now, that the supporters of prohibition lost the National Government billions of dollars that would have been collected off the various alcohol taxes. Also limiting society’s behavior is and always will be a controversial decision because somewhere within every society there lurks a deviant side. When limitations are placed on the people belonging to any society, this defiant behavior always seems to pop up.