Prohibition in the nineteen twenties was the beginning of a huge domino effect that no one could have ever predicted its outcome, let alone the back lash that would come from it. Anything and everything the pro-prohibitionists thought was going to happen, the exact opposite was the result. As republican congressman Fiorello La Guardia of New York stated his opinion of prohibition as being "a disaster. It had created contempt and disregard for the law all over the country."(A Nation of Hypocrites) It is easy to conclude that prohibition was the back bone that made the roaring twenties into what we remember it as, a law that “had been enacted to forestall change, to put an end to alcoholism, to safeguard the American family, to reestablish the
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Among many people who supported prohibition, women played a huge part in having the amendment passed. “Women supported prohibition, as it was believed to prevent abuse at home, and maintain a generally civilized lifestyle” (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) Alcohol was believed to be causing men to commit awful things like spousal abuse, child abuse and marital rape. Poverty was among the many side effects that became associated with alcohol abuse since it inhibited the abuser to be able to go to work and made the abuser have low motivation to work. Another force that motivated prohibition was various religious groups since they believed prohibiting alcohol would “decrease the amount of crime, spousal abuse, and raise the overall amount of piety in America.” (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) Along with moral and economic reasons, politics, and more economical reasons caused prohibition, since the 16th amendment was passed for income tax, the government was no longer making money off of alcohol and discontinued any benefit of it for the federal government. When “the prohibition and women’s suffrage movements created an alliance”, the influence of prohibiting alcohol became realistic (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) and a fight that would not be …show more content…
Many historians believed prohibition to be “the law of unintended consequences”. (Jonathan Eig) Michael Lerner makes it clear how he felt about prohibition by saying “What a stupid idea it was that people actually find you could get away with this. That you could actually ban alcohol, completely eliminate its usage in American society. It's a, it's a preposterous idea”. Trying to find a historian that felt positively about prohibition, is close to impossible, I would know since I tired. Prohibition failed due to “their extremism, they eliminated all moderate support and that's a really important political asset that applies to a lot of different movements, that you have to bend a little if you're gonna stay.”,(Catherine Gilbert Murdock) because if you don’t “it's all going to come crushing down around you”. (Catherine Gilbert Murdock) Not only was the law too extreme, it began to cost way more than expected. The government began pouring so much money into the prevention of crime surrounding prohibition, the realization of repealing the amendment was far less expensive than to overspend on a crime that was simply never going to stop. “Somehow, the same country that had banned the sale of alcohol had become the biggest importer of cocktail shakers in the world”. (Peter
Among many people who supported prohibition, women played a huge part in having the amendment passed. “Women supported prohibition, as it was believed to prevent abuse at home, and maintain a generally civilized lifestyle” (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) Alcohol was believed to be causing men to commit awful things like spousal abuse, child abuse and marital rape. Poverty was among the many side effects that became associated with alcohol abuse since it inhibited the abuser to be able to go to work and made the abuser have low motivation to work. Another force that motivated prohibition was various religious groups since they believed prohibiting alcohol would “decrease the amount of crime, spousal abuse, and raise the overall amount of piety in America.” (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) Along with moral and economic reasons, politics, and more economical reasons caused prohibition, since the 16th amendment was passed for income tax, the government was no longer making money off of alcohol and discontinued any benefit of it for the federal government. When “the prohibition and women’s suffrage movements created an alliance”, the influence of prohibiting alcohol became realistic (Liana Bernt, prohibition in America) and a fight that would not be …show more content…
Many historians believed prohibition to be “the law of unintended consequences”. (Jonathan Eig) Michael Lerner makes it clear how he felt about prohibition by saying “What a stupid idea it was that people actually find you could get away with this. That you could actually ban alcohol, completely eliminate its usage in American society. It's a, it's a preposterous idea”. Trying to find a historian that felt positively about prohibition, is close to impossible, I would know since I tired. Prohibition failed due to “their extremism, they eliminated all moderate support and that's a really important political asset that applies to a lot of different movements, that you have to bend a little if you're gonna stay.”,(Catherine Gilbert Murdock) because if you don’t “it's all going to come crushing down around you”. (Catherine Gilbert Murdock) Not only was the law too extreme, it began to cost way more than expected. The government began pouring so much money into the prevention of crime surrounding prohibition, the realization of repealing the amendment was far less expensive than to overspend on a crime that was simply never going to stop. “Somehow, the same country that had banned the sale of alcohol had become the biggest importer of cocktail shakers in the world”. (Peter