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" Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was

intended to solve " , which is actually true because since alcohol was seen as the devil's

advocate , prohibition came along to try to put an end to all the crime , poverty and the

rest of the problems of America but instead made them worse by the creation of

organized crime like organized gangs who competed amongst each other to sell illegal

liquor and the development of stronger proof liquor and other new kinds of liquor too .

On Midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most

Americans suddenly came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and

all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor

was put to an end. Shortly following the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the

National Prohibition Act, or the Volstead Act, as it was called because of its author,

Andrew J.......

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