prohibition

Prohibition in the 1920s was made to stop "corruption" in towns. But prohibition is what started spreading corruption. People started making there own alcohol and selling it to secret bars these were called "speakeasies". More people consumed alcohol then when they didn't have the ban of alcohol.The alcohol that was made wasn't good to drink they were mostly suppose to be used as medicine for example a type of whisky but the people really didn't care. The only type of alcohol that people were allowed to make in there house was wine and hard cider.

A lot of towns didn't try stopping them from making there own liquor or opening secret bars they just let it slid. Later on politicians admitted to drinking home made liquor. Many wineries were shut down because of the prohibition. All the money that was made went to gangsters or to the mafia. That's when we start seeing more of them. They caused a lot of destruction around the towns trying to get more money they were called "bootleggers".

In 1933 the legislator of the state made the twenty-first amendment to stop the prohibition. But some states still kept prohibition about two thirds made there own local opinion so the towns people had to vote to either keep the prohibition or not. At one point 38% of people lived still with the prohibition.By the end of 1966 all states had stopped the prohibition.

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