The 18th amendment divided the country and society into the dries and the wets: those who supported the amendment and those who did not. By 1916 over half the US had prohibited alcohol, with the exception of anti-Prohibition states such as New York and Maryland that refused to give in. Many states much like these […]
When Prohibition took effect on January 17, 1920, and banned the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcoholic beverages thousands of formerly legal saloons and bars across the country closed down. This angered many people; the supply and the demand for the illegal alcohol was going up, so people known as bootleggers have decided to go […]
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Get startedThe ultimate failure of the prohibition and eighteenth amendment provided a lot of repercussions, mostly negative. With the ban of liquor sales and distribution came a lot of room for new crime and ways to break the law; this left law enforcement to become stretched very thin while simultaneously paving a path for the future […]
