Picture this: its the roaring twenties, people were ecstatic about the war being over, but had no idea that there was about to be a cultural civil war among America starting with prohibition. From the end of nineteen eighteen to nineteen thirty three prohibition had its impractical moments and was controverted , and in the end, it became one of the most prominent moments in U.S history
J.J Little explains that the Eighteenth Amendment made drinking and selling alcohol illegal(598). The meaning of prohibition was to diminish the drinking of alcohol, and therefor the crime rate would plummet, including poverty, death rates, and the condition of life would become better also boosting the economy. Sadly, this was no help at all (Addiction History 1165). The FPB (Federal Prohibition Bureau) began only to over look the Volstead Act and made sure it was
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These laws, however, were infringed upon often by smugglers and those who were alike. The smugglers would creep their boozes overseas (and some from Canada), take it from the government storehouse, and then make their own. Numerous amounts of people stored their liquor in secret compartments such as empty canes, false books, and whatever else they could create (Al Capone). Illegal liquor stores, or speakeasies, substituted saloons after the beginning of prohibition. The number of speakeasies, just in New York City, toppled over one-hundred thousand by nineteen-twenty five (Al Capone). Even though that sounded like a solid plan, prohibition was easier said than done. With miles of vast coastline (18,700 miles) outnumbering the federal agents (1,550 federal agents) by a ridiculous amount, trying to stop substantial amounts of liquor from gaining access into