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Essay Galaxy - Prohibition
Prohibition
One of the most controversial, the Eighteenth, and later, its
repeal, the Tweny-First amendment, made a big impact on America, and their
ideas are still talked about today. Prohibition has had many different view
points from the beginning.
Prohibition started long before the Eighteenth Amendment.
Organizations against alcohol such as the Anti-Saloon League and the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union were succeeding in enacting local
prohibition laws, turning the campaign into a national effort. In the late
1900s there was an average of one saloon for every 150 to 200 people,
including nondrinkers, due to competition in brewing companies. The major
complaint was the sex and gambling that went along with the saloons.
Originally it was started as awartime austerity measure in 1917, and later
Congress proposed the Eighteenth Amendment. According to Dennis Mahoney, in
1919, it was ratifie....
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