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Prohibition

On the 18th of December 1917, Congress sent to the states the 18th Amendment, which one-year after ratification on the 16th of January 1818 banned the manufacture, sale or transport of intoxicating liquors. In 1919 the Volstead Act defined as "intoxicating" all beverages containing more than 0.5 percent alcohol, which then became illegal once the 18th Amendment went into effect in 1920. Prohibition of alcohol in America between 1920 and 1933 was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and improve health in America.
The benefits of Prohibition depended on the amount of alcohol consumed being reduced. At the beginning of prohibition alcohol consumption fell but then it began to increase again. Many ordinary people who were not that interested in alcohol before Prohibition now saw alcohol as glamorous and dangerous. Crime increased and now became organized. The courts and prisons were stretched to the limit, and many......


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