People WQho Were Tired Of Alcohole Users Wanted It. So Did the Government.
The reasons why people wanted a prohibition on alcohol because of the apparent effects it had on people - and you still see them today (but probably not as common as back then or as hyped in mass media).
Prohibition was a typical Progressive era program. The desire was to force people to do what the Progressives thought they should do rather than what people really wanted to do.
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Attitudes towards Prohibition did change at the start of the period of Prohibition many people were positive towards the idea of Prohibition with them believing that it would lead to a "Purer" American society however by the end of the Prohibition era most people wanted the law to be abolished with most believing that it had been a failure which had encouraged ordinary American citizens to become criminals So overall attitudes towards the idea of probhition did change from the period of 1915-33
It encouraged people to break the law because they wanted to show the government that it is America and that it is our American right to be able to drink. It encouraged people to break the law because they wanted to show the government that it is America and that it is our American right to be able to drink.
Al Capone was the biggest gangster of the 1920s. He was wanted for bootlegging illegal alcohol during prohibition.
Progressives wanted to reduce alcohol abuse, drunkenness, and their associated issues (crime, poverty, etc.) and industrialists wanted to battle absenteeism in the workplace. Thus, the groups united to fight for prohibition.
By increasing crime, Prohibition led to violence.
Reformers hated alcohol so they wanted to have it banned it was beneficial but is was not so....................
Many people thought that drinking alcohol was the cause of virtually all poverty, crime, disease, violence, and other problems in society.
because alcohol was not being regulated as it was supposed to. The vast majority wanted alcohol to become legal again so they could drink freely