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1. This is all about prohibitions during the 1920's and 1930's. Many people have known about prohibition which is the ban of alcohol. Also, it has had an impact on people because they have been wanting to drink so they can get drunk. Most people don't like alcohol because it is not good for people to drink. There have been many protests for people drinking alcohol and wanting to ban it. Most people have been selling alcohol to make money so they can be rich. Most people think this it is illegal because they believe the people who are selling alcohol must likely will get charged with a crime. Also when people would drink it, it would create violence in the world. The Volstead act was apart of prohibition because it also had alcohol. Many people did follow the Volstead act because it was the right thing to do. There were also gangsters that used alcohol. There was lots of crime when it came to alcohol because it was wrong to many people. When people get drunk it has an impact on people which can be negative. The prohibition of banning alcohol has had an effect on society because many people still want to drink alcohol and get drunk. Many people did believe in the 18th amendment because of how important it was to ban alcohol.
2. I believe how prohibition of banning alcohol did was change society because it had an impact on so many people. Also since it had an impact on so many people, they knew what do to (not drink alcohol). During the culture of America in the 1920's, alcohol had a popular culture in America where there would be advertisements and banners and such. Also people knew it was wrong to drink alcohol because it can make them violent and do bad things. Another thing that how prohibition changed alcohol was that many people made it illegal to drink alcohol because it was not good. Also, it had a bad influence on people because it had an effect on their lives which was not good. The influence lasted only for a few years because of all the protests and wanting to ban alcohol and etc. The influence did effect lots of people because of how bad the stuff was.Also many people didn't like this influence because it effected their lives. Many people would always remember during the 1920's about how alcohol would affect people because they should never forget it. Even though prohibition on alcohol lasted for a few years, many people would never forget it. It also would tell people that they should never drink alcohol ever again because it is wrong. Therefore these are the reasons its had an effect on society.

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When the 18th amendment was enforced gangs sky rocketed. the killing by the mobs and money for the mobs went way up. people did not stop drinking they just gave there money to bad guys, not the government. Very dangerous men were more rich and powerful than ever, and this could've been avoided. government officials and law enforcers would go to speak easies because everyone still needed a drink every once in a while.

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http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/45344

This document is talking about a group of people who will meet. they will meet to organize prohibition in Wisconsin. They all swear to not drink intoxicating liquor. they all are looking to enforce prohibition in the state of Wisconsin. they will meet for various reasons concerning prohibition. they will discuss, punishments, fines, and arrests.

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Revenue - Income, especially of a company
Defendant - An individual accused in a court
Temperance movement - Abstinence from alcoholic drinker
Inventiveness - The quality of being inventive, creative
Ratification - A principal's approval of an act

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The 18th amendment was prohibition. Prohibition banned the usage, sale, and consumption of alcohol. They did this because alcohol was creating violence in the world. Prohibition created more crime and violence than ever. The amendment was created because drinking alcohol was not god like and could end the sinless living of America. little did they know crime and violence would sky rocket after this amendment was passed.

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In todays society drinking alcohol is the norm for most people. Dinking is not healthy but it wont kill you, but it can. You cant drive while under the influence because you can kill or seriously injure someone.

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The 11-year-old Brooklyn boy who was hurt in a DWI accident has died, a prosecutor said Monday.

Little Dylan Perry succumbed to injuries suffered when his stepfather Anthony Pollydore, 65, crashed into a light post Sunday morning, authorities said.

Pollydore, dressed in a dapper all-white three-piece suit and matching loafers, said nothing when the death of his stepson was announced during his Brooklyn Criminal Court arraignment.

He was ordered held without bail and his license was suspended after getting charged with aggravated vehicular assault and aggravated drunken driving with a child.

Those counts will be upgraded in light of the child's death, a source said.

"He just found out. He's heartbroken," defense lawyer Joseph Ostrowsky said of the tragic loss. "It's just a terrible, terrible thing."

Another 12-year-old stepson, identified as Alex Perry, and Pollymore's son, 5-year-old Kyle Pollymore, were also in the 1995 Toyota during the 8 a.m. wreck in Brownsville.

None of the kids were wearing seat belts, said prosecutor Wilfredo Cotto.

The youngest child was thrown into the front of the car but "didn't have any injuries, which is a miracle," a source said. The 12-year-old had minor injuries to his leg.

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But Dylan suffered head and lung trauma and was pronounced dead Monday morning, said the source.

"The defendant was observed by two witnesses driving in a high rate of speed" before hitting a median and crashing head-on into the pole, Cotto said in court.

Pollymore's alcohol blood level was measured at 0.094, well over the legal limit of 0.08, the prosecutor said.

Pollymore has two DWI convictions from 2004 and 2009, he added.

On July 4, 2009, he registered a 0.147 blood alcohol level after being involved in a one-car accident in Queens, according to court documents. He pleaded guilty and paid a $500 fine, records show.

Ostrowsky said after the hearing that he has "unconfirmed information that (my client) was cut off" before the Sunday crash.

He said Pollymore, of Bed-Stuy, was returning from a social gathering, describing him as a war veteran and "a very nice gentleman."

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Brooklyn boy in drunk driving crash dies

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Little Dylan Perry succumbed to injuries suffered when his stepfather Anthony Pollydore, 65, crushed into a light post Sunday morning, authorities said. Pollydore's alcohol blood level was measured at 0.094, well over the legal limit of 0.08, the prosecutor said.

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This website is different because it talks about the background story of the 18th amendment. it showed what the people who supported it thought and then showed why it failed and added much more gangster crime to the nation.

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Eighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol.

The Eighteenth Amendment emerged from the organized efforts of the temperance movement and Anti-Saloon League, which attributed to alcohol virtually all of society's ills and led campaigns at the local, state, and national levels to combat its manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption. Most of the organized efforts supporting prohibition involved religious coalitions that linked alcohol to immorality, criminality, and, with the advent of World War I, unpatriotic citizenship. The amendment passed both chambers of the U.S. Congress in December 1917 and was ratified by the requisite three-fourths of the states in January 1919. Its language called for Congress to pass enforcement legislation, and this was championed by Andrew Volstead, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who engineered passage of the National Prohibition Act (commonly referred to as the Volstead Act). The act was conceived by Anti-Saloon League leader Wayne Wheeler and passed over the veto of Pres. Woodrow Wilson.

Neither the Volstead Act nor the Amendment was enforced with great success. Indeed, entire illegal economies ( bootlegging, speakeasies, and distilling operations) flourished. The public appetite for alcohol remained and was only intensified with the stock market crash of 1929. In March 1933, shortly after taking office, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which amended the Volstead Act, permitting the manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beer and wines (up to 3.2 percent alcohol by volume). Nine months later, on December 5, 1933, federal prohibition was repealed with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment (which allowed prohibition to be maintained at the state and local levels). The Eighteenth Amendment is the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.

The full text of the Amendment is:

Section 1-After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2-The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3-This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

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Eighteenth Amendment | Definition, Summary, & Facts

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Eighteenth Amendment, amendment (1919) to the Constitution of the United States imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol. It was repealed in 1933, following the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment thus became the only amendment to have secured ratification and later been repealed.

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They show nice old clips of people talking about how they support it. they show old speak easy and big gangster busts. also had people who study prohibition talking on the subject.

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Prohibition in the United States: National Ban of Alcohol

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it was very clear, explained old terms, and had facts. it is a very credible and well known source. it talks about why it started, why it was hard to enforce, and how it came to an end.

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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. Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919 and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce. The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as "bootlegging"), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and other crimes led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s. In early 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The 21st Amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.

Origins of Prohibition

In the 1820s and '30s, a wave of religious revivalism swept the United States, leading to increased calls for temperance, as well as other "perfectionist" movements such as the abolitionist movement to end slavery. In 1838, the state of Massachusetts passed a temperance law banning the sale of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities; though the law was repealed two years later, it set a precedent for such legislation. Maine passed the first state prohibition laws in 1846, followed by a stricter law in 1851. A number of other states had followed suit by the time the Civil War began in 1861.

Did you know? In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the incumbent President Herbert Hoover, who once called Prohibition "the great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose." Some say FDR celebrated the repeal of Prohibition by enjoying a dirty martini, his preferred drink.

By the turn of the century, temperance societies were a common fixture in communities across the United States. Women played a strong role in the temperance movement, as alcohol was seen as a destructive force in families and marriages. In 1906, a new wave of attacks began on the sale of liquor, led by the Anti-Saloon League (established in 1893) and driven by a reaction to urban growth, as well as the rise of evangelical Protestantism and its view of saloon culture as corrupt and ungodly. In addition, many factory owners supported prohibition in their desire to prevent accidents and increase the efficiency of their workers in an era of increased industrial production and extended working hours.

READ MORE: See All the Crafty Ways Americans Hid Alcohol During Prohibition

Passage of the Prohibition Amendment

In 1917, after the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson instituted a temporary wartime prohibition in order to save grain for producing food. That same year, Congress submitted the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, for state ratification. Though Congress had stipulated a seven-year time limit for the process, the amendment received the support of the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states in just 11 months.

Ratified on January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment went into effect a year later, by which time no fewer than 33 states had already enacted their own prohibition legislation. In October 1919, Congress put forth the National Prohibition Act, which provided guidelines for the federal enforcement of Prohibition. Championed by Representative Andrew Volstead of Minnesota, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the legislation was more commonly known as the Volstead Act.

Enforcement of Prohibition

Both federal and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition over the course of the 1920s. Enforcement was initially assigned to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and was later transferred to the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prohibition, or Prohibition Bureau. In general, Prohibition was enforced much more strongly in areas where the population was sympathetic to the legislation-mainly rural areas and small towns-and much more loosely in urban areas. Despite very early signs of success, including a decline in arrests for drunkenness and a reported 30 percent drop in alcohol consumption, those who wanted to keep drinking found ever-more inventive ways to do it. The illegal manufacturing and sale of liquor (known as "bootlegging") went on throughout the decade, along with the operation of " speakeasies " (stores or nightclubs selling alcohol), the smuggling of alcohol across state lines and the informal production of liquor ("moonshine" or "bathtub gin") in private homes.

In addition, the Prohibition era encouraged the rise of criminal activity associated with bootlegging. The most notorious example was the Chicago gangster Al Capone, who earned a staggering $60 million annually from bootleg operations and speakeasies. Such illegal operations fueled a corresponding rise in gang violence, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago in 1929, in which several men dressed as policemen (and believed to be have associated with Capone) shot and killed a group of men in an enemy gang.

Prohibition Comes to an End

The high price of bootleg liquor meant that the nation's working class and poor were far more restricted during Prohibition than middle or upper class Americans. Even as costs for law enforcement, jails and prisons spiraled upward, support for Prohibition was waning by the end of the 1920s. In addition, fundamentalist and nativist forces had gained more control over the temperance movement, alienating its more moderate members.

With the country mired in the Great Depression by 1932, creating jobs and revenue by legalizing the liquor industry had an undeniable appeal. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president that year on a platform calling for Prohibition's repeal, and easily won victory over the incumbent President Herbert Hoover. FDR's victory meant the end for Prohibition, and in February 1933 Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th. The amendment was submitted to the states, and in December 1933 Utah provided the 36th and final necessary vote for ratification. Though a few states continued to prohibit alcohol after Prohibition's end, all had abandoned the ban by 1966.

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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. Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919 and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act.

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It explained exactly what prohibition was very well. explained old terms and meanings and gave dates to support its facts.

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Prohibition | Definition, History, Eighteenth Amendment, & Repeal

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Prohibition was legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the Eighteenth Amendment. Despite this legislation, millions of Americans drank liquor illegally, giving rise to bootlegging, speakeasies, and a period of gangsterism.