Prohibition by Luis Ortiz

The Struggle

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Stopping the use of alcohol wasn't all so easy. Both federal and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition over the course of the 1920s. 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 more inventive ways to do it. The illegal manufacturing and sale of liquor was known as “bootlegging”

The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement and the Anti-Saloon

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In 1873, the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement wanted to completely stop the use of alcohol,They did so because they believed the saloon was the center of society’s ills and campaigned to have them closed down using a mixture of prayer and direct, confrontational action.

The End

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On March 22, 1933, Roosevelt signed into law an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen–Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture, transportation, and sale of some alcoholic beverages. Prohibition was repealed at midnight on April 7, 1933. At 12.01 am

Aftermath

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After Prohibition was repealed, it was left up to the states to decide how to govern alcohol consumption. Most states made 21 the legal drinking age, although a handful required drinkers to be only 18. No national drinking age existed until 1984, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed. One major catalyst behind the creation of this law was the increase in deaths related to drunk driving.