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Prohibition In The 1920's Research Paper

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Prohibition was around in the 1920's. It caused many problems such as organized crime and corruption in the courts system. There were many judges and cops that would take money to look the other way and let the bootleggers shuffle their inventory around the cities. Many people such as Al Capone made millions off of prohibition. In the beginning it was thought that prohibition would create a society with less alcoholism, more morale people, and less crime. It actually had the opposite effect. The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition.In the 1820s and ’30s, a wave of religious revivalism
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