Prohibition made organized criminals rich and also profited the many corrupted public officials.
By increasing crime, Prohibition led to violence.
One of the paradoxes can be the alcohol issue where, the country at the beginning of the 1920s was supporting prohibition of alcohol sales and by the end of the 1920s the people showed much hypocrisy and switched their views on prohibition which turned out as a huge failure. The part of paradox would come from the hypocrisy of people and the quick change of mindset based on prohibition.
People did not stop drinking alcoholic beverages.
1923
National Prohibition in the US began in 1920 but support for it declined throughout the 1920s.
what is one result of prohibition during the 1920s?
All US states were affected by National Prohibition.
At the beginning, many people were very optimistic but as its failures became increasingly evident more and more people came to oppose Prohibition. By the time of its repeal, 74% of voters opposed it.
The Prohibition Act ended April 7th, 1933.
prohibition
Prohibition was the largest social conflict in the 1920s.
In the 1920s, a bootlegger produce alcoholic beverages and supply them to speakeasies because of Prohibition.