Prohibition

Alcohol

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

One argument used in favor of the repeal was that bringing back the liquor industry would create jobs. Jphelm.

Other arguments were that prohibition was causing violence in many cities, specially in Chicago were different gangs fought each other to control the illegal liquor industry.

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Illegal bars where people went to drink and see entertainment --APEX

Bootleggers and organized crime.

The KKK of the 1920s was established in near Atlanta in 1915 largely to protect and defend Georgia's statewide prohibition that has been imposed a few years earlier.

Bootleggers sold illegal alcohol to consumers and helped to bypass the laws.

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The major political idea tested during the 1920s was that of National Prohibition.

The twenty-first amendment repeals the eighteenth amendment.

Temperance was first on Benjamin Franklin's list because it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition.

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Early on, the main goal of the Temperance Movement was moderation in the consumption of alcoholic beverages. As the movement grew, the goal shifted to voluntary abstinence, then to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Catharine Beecher (APEX)

While there was alway the "mob" aka organized crime. the point of organized crime is to bring "illegal" goods and services to those willing to pay for it. just like mcdonalds bring Hamburgers to those who want to eat hamburgers. They are very organized and need to be to make a profit.

prohibition make all alcohol illegal. those best to profit from this now ''illegal" good were those who already had a structure to provide "illegal" goods and services. since everyone like alcohol, be it simply beer or a whisky, organized crime was able to make lot so money, which the organization invested in itself to provide futher infustructre to provide good and services.

so after alcohol become legal again, organized crime still had this infustructure in place to provide goods and services that have not been legal yet, such as other drugs, prositution, stolen goods (at cheaper prices), etc.

Repeal of National Prohibition in the US allowed individual states whether to have state-wide prohibition or to permit "local option" whereby counties and other political jurisdictions could decide for themselves whether or not to have local prohibition.

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the inability of government to enforce the law

One way prohibition came to be viewed as a problem rather than a solution was the fact that people then started making their own illegal alcohol. Many Federal agents were needed to search out and destroy these distilleries or "stills".

Catharine Beecher (APEX)

Prohibition became a disagreement between rural and urban communities.

Because organized crime and its violence grew, because aggressive prohibition agents shot many people, because many people died from drinking tainted moonshine, etc.

National Prohibition in the US was repealed because 74% of the voters had come to believe that it failed in its purpose but also created enormous and serious problems.

Women most strongly enforced prohibition due to excessive spending for liquor rather than for food.