PROHIBITION IN THE 1920's

THESIS

Some people will probably find it hard to imagine a life without their after work can of beer, remote, and the television.  The adults without the wine to guzzle down while socializing with an old friend.  The college kids without the beverage that makes their Saturday night. Or the wine to sip when at church.  Nevertheless, indeed there was a point in time where alcohol was illegal.  The road to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment was a stretch of what seems like a thousand years.  Alcohol always seemed to be viewed as a problem-causing substance.  Through the tedious work by the women in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, alcohol became a great debate in which whether or not it should be illegal.  It was either being for prohibition or against it. On January 16, 1919 the 18th Amendment was finally ratified. But  with all the hard work that was done to get the amendment ratified, the alcohol rate definitely decreased, however, it is said that the debate over the ratification was a complete waste of time. In the end, prohibition’s consequences caused even more problems with violence and overall crime within our society.

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