DBQ-Document D.-Genesis,Ashley Roanda, Anahi, Alyne by Genesis Silva

3. Violation of Prohibition

4179271 — 2025-01-23 19:14:47 UTC

The author expresses the way the same people who created the law violated it. It caused anger towards the author because they prosecuted a bootlegger but the same creators weren´t put in jail for violating the law. Which shows hypocrisy from the own creators of the law.

1.Who is the author of the document and what government position did she hold?

4228511 — 2025-01-23 19:17:46 UTC

The author of this document is Mabel Walker Willebrandt . She held the position for deputy US attorney general for prohibition enforcement. She was fighting justice for the laws of the bootleggers.

4. How does this document help explain why Americans wanted to repeal the 18th amendment?

459466 — 2025-01-23 19:19:08 UTC

The reason why the U.S wanted to repeal was because, men did not want to stop drinking, for them they enjoyed it. While the women want the 18th Amendment to be ban, because men would abuse their wives, their children, they would come to work drunk, as well as congress , and other men on the floor.

2. What was the Volstead Act?

421813_2 — 2025-01-23 19:22:45 UTC

The Volstead Act prohibited the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in 1919 & eventually led to the 18th Amendment.

5. Summary

459466 — 2025-01-23 19:29:28 UTC

To Conclude, men where frustrated and disliked the idea of the 18th Amendment because that meant alcohol would get band. On the other hand wife's where happy, and liked the 18th Amendment due to the alcohol, their husbands would come home drunk and would beat them and their children's, men would come to work drunk, and even congress would be on the floor due to so much alcohol being in their body.