Gilded/Progressive Summative by Haden-Lee Volpe https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-03-14 14:58:55 UTC 2023-06-03 11:47:18 UTC hello@padlet.com On December 5, 1933, the Twenty-First Amendment was ratified, repealing Prohibition and ending a thirteen-year experiment in legislated morality. Since the nineteenth century, temperance reformers had argued that alcohol debased people’s characters, destroyed domestic happiness, filled the nation’s prisons, ruined moral sensibilities and physical vitality, and brought millions to poverty, misery, and premature death. volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160547662 2017-03-16 14:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160547662 volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160548518 2017-03-16 14:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160548518 Prohibition, authorized by the Eighteenth Amendment and enforced federally by the Volstead Act, sought to bring a utopian future of unprecedented health, morality, and productivity into being by prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation, and exportation of intoxicating liquors. volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160549988 2017-03-16 14:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160549988 volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160551349 2017-03-16 14:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160551349 The Volstead Act did not ban the actual consumption of alcohol, but reformers believed that once it was no longer aggressively marketed by the liquor industry Americans would lose their taste for it. Certainly many did, as consumption declined considerably and remained lower even after repeal. volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160551929 2017-03-16 14:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160551929 volpeh https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160553250 2017-03-16 14:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/volpeh/crn1jnak4l33/wish/160553250