Prohibitionin the Twenties - 1600 Words

Prohibition In the roaring twenties the idea of a dry age was crossing the minds of many citizens in the states. During this time, the economy was starting to boom. As society was booming, the temperance movement started to cause problems in the system. Most people went along with the idea that drinking was bad and needed to be put to an end but they still wanted to drink. Other problems are brought up about all of the job loss that this prohibition would cause. Prohibition was created to reform social behaviors and uprising crimes caused by this dry state that later led to the revocation of the 18th amendment. Before the temperance movement and the 18th amendment, problems with abuse and overdose were starting to occur. A committee†¦show more content†¦Bootleggers or smugglers would make the alcohol somewhere else and smuggle it through the borders and sell to people over priced. The problem with that is the alcohol is more potent or strong and the people would think they c an drink as much as they used to be able to and really it kills them or gives them alcohol poisoning. Another loophole around getting in trouble for having alcohol is that the doctor could prescribe anybody with ‘necessary’ conditions alcohol. Also you could buy fruit concentrates and other concentrates that on the label, would explain what not to do to make wine. Cops were also being bribed with money and had to make the choice of being a good cop or becoming corrupt, unfortunately there were many cops who became corrupt (Prohibition). Many people got caught and charged for consuming, selling, transporting or just having alcohol in their possessions making some innocent people criminals (Learner). Prohibition was created to eliminate crime, that’s what they thought it would do but in all reality, it’s creating more criminals out of innocent people and causing more crimes (18th and 21st Amendment). Crime is a big worry during this time; everyone said that if alcohol was banned there wouldn’t be any need for their jails or anything, but the number of federal convicts went up 561 %( Meredith). How could this be? Alcohol was the savior and the