Prohibition

Most went out of business because they couldn't survive by producing sacramental wine, ice cream, and other products.

People made their own liquors and smuggled them around in boots (hence the term bootlegger) and also drove in fast cars that can carry lots of this alcohol to different places while avoiding the police (this was the roots of NASCAR) and people went into hidden illegal bars called speakeasies. Nowadays, speakeasies, bars, and alcohol were no longer illegal, but the trend still continues that the owners try to keep them hidden to a certain degree.

Organized crime, violence, corruption of public officials, binge drinking, disrespect for the law, a realization that Prohibition was a terrible mistake that was creating enormous problems while solving none, binge drinking, death as a result of drinking tainted alcohol, illegal drinking establishments, and many more problems.

To decrease social problems

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Both prohibition and neo-prohibition attempt to reduce alcohol consumption.

The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed alcohol prohibition; there is no federal amendment that restricts purchase or consumption of alcohol to "adults". That is generally regulated by state law.

Speakeasy. Most came with a small secret room somewhere, providing a fast getaway for the proprietors in the event of a police raid.

National Prohibition in the US created prosperity in Canada by providing an excellent market for alcoholic beverages. Prohibitions of any type help those who provide the goods or services that are prohibited.

Whether the prohibition was helpful or harmful will depend on the particular prohibition. In some instances it can be helpful while in other cases it will have adverse effects.

Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw the drinking and selling of alcoholic beverages. Many we women whom had had bad experiences with alcohol. For instance, Carrie Nation's husband became an alcoholic, and died. For this reason, Nation decided to work to outlaw alcohol.

Eliminate all crime and social injustice, allow the poor to improve themselves, etc.

Basically it was believed that all of societies evils were caused by alcohol and drunkenness, eliminating alcohol would eliminate all those issues "magically".

The 21st Amendment (1933) repealed the 18th Amendment (1919), which is also known as "prohibition" and banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the US.

(The ban on alcohol did not prohibit its consumption, and was widely ignored, leading to the growth of a massive illegal industry dominated by criminal gangs.)

Herbert Hoover called it the Noble Experiment.

The most common name was speakeasy, but they were also called blind pigs and blind tigers.

The temperance movement won the battle against alcohol because of how badly drinking affected the women. Men would waste all their money on booze and leave their poor wives and children with little to no money. And under the leadership of Stanton and other great women alcohol was outlawed.

Speakeasies are Illegal bars that sell alcohol. They were started cause of prohibition in the nineteen twenties.

Everything, if prohibition never existed, there never would have been moonshiners (running illegal whiskey), and the police wouldn't have been chasing them, and the drivers wouldn't have needed faster cars to get away from them. After prohibition was over, the moonshiners still had the need for speed, so they started to race each other on short dirt tracks, and in 1949 NASCAR was born.

Many women supported temperance because women saw how alcohol affected men. Some woman believed that alcohol brought out the devils in men, and in some cases it did. When men got intoxicated they would miss treat woman, and no one would do anything about it because they were only women. When women were fighting for rights the alcoholic industry fought aginst woman rights because they wanted to make alcohol illegal, thus destroying their businesses.

Because dumb websites like wikianswers cant answer a freaking question, yet this is the reasoning of the whole freaking operation! Suggestion: Get some nerds or geeks to help you, then maybe you wont get called out as so!

Prohibition became increasingly unpopular as people saw that it solved no problems but instead created many serious problems. By the time of its repeal, about 75% of american voters opposed Prohibition.

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See _They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions_ by Paul Boller (Oxford University Press, 1989).

One way you can easily spot these sorts of fake quotes from prominent historical figures is to increase your level of general historical knowledge. That lets you realize quickly when something is unlikely given the context of the time of the quote.

In this case, Prohibition as a movement was very much in retreat and decline when Lincoln was President. It didn't become nationally significant again until decades after his death. (And Lincoln as President had certain issues that essentially dominated his agenda to the exclusion of all others, notably the small matter of the Civil War.)

Another example of a former President claimed to have said something that is incongruous in the context of the time is the fake quote of Jefferson warning that corrupt corporations and banks will use inflation to dispossess the common people of America, who will "wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."

While inflation is in truth a terrible danger to ordinary workers and retirees, and banks often do not have the best interests of those people at heart, consider these points:

[a] the technical term "inflation" was not in use yet in the literature of political economy in Jefferson's day. (Political economy was the term used by Jefferson and his contemporaries to describe much of what we would today call "economics", economics as a distinct, rigorous, systematized field not yet really having come into clearly defined existence back then.)

[b] The continent of North America had not yet been "conquered" by the United States at the time of Jefferson's death. Considerable amounts of territory that are now part of the contiguous United States still lay outside of American ownership and control during Jefferson's life, and it was by no means clear that those areas would ever be part of the USA.

Those clues should make it clear that something's not right with the attribution. And the Jefferson quote does in fact not appear anywhere in any of his archived writings or books. Someone, somewhere, simply made it up.

Here's one more quick example of how not to be hoodwinked:

Barack Obama's Vice President, Joe Biden, interviewed by CBS News during the 2008 campaign, said this:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.'"

Again, if you have a solid fund of general historical knowledge, you can immediately identify that, while the Biden quote is quite real, Biden is proving himself to be out of his intellectual depth.

[a] The stock market crashed in 1929, under FDR's predecessor Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt didn't take office until 1932.

[b] Television existed in FDR's day, but its technical state was incredibly primitive, and deployment was incredibly limited. There were only a few hundred sets in the entire country, and Roosevelt never "got on the television" to address Americans -- what would have been the point? The ubiquitous mass media of FDR's day was radio, on which he made many regular addresses to the nation.

Women, Protestants, people with long ancestry in the US, the Ku Klux Klan, rural and small town residents, residents of the South, bootleggers and organized criminals, highly religious people, lower income people, and less educated people tended to support National Prohibition.

There wasn't one. All the arguments for prohibition basically boiled down to "people are too stupid for their own good", which is certainly true, but the problem was that making alcohol illegal didn't make them any smarter, it just made them more willing to break the law.