18th Amendment Research Paper

Prohibition was the ban of alcohol. It started on December 17th, 1917.This was the 18th amendment. The vote from the house of representatives to get it ratified was 282 to 128. The senate's vote was 47 to 8. Finally in the early 1920’s it came into effect The government put the 18th amendment into play because they thought it would lower the crime rates and help people with their everyday lives ( the 18th amendment banned the use, manufacturing, and selling of alcohol) ( "Prohibition). It made people who drank alcohol a lot want to drink it more and people who rarely drank it want to drink it more because they couldn't drink it anymore. After the 18th amendment was put into place this made more crimes and more manufacturing and production of alcohol because people couldn't drink it. Or could they. drinking alcohol was an everyday thing and some people could have been looking forward to drinking once they came of age. America thought they could take that away from them well i don't think so america you are gonna have to try harder than that.Government thought they were not going to have that many problems with this but they were wrong. Even though it was illegal to manufacture, use, and sell alchohol …show more content…
Here are some things the Volstead Act did. (1) To “prohibit intoxicating beverages.” (2) “[T]o regulate the manufacture, production, use and sale of high proof spirits for other than beverage purposes.” (3) To “insure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye and other lawful industries.” It also defines what intoxicating liquors were. During this time people were allowed to keep liquor in their homes for personal consumption. They could not carry alcohol with them. Unless they were changing residence. A doctor could have prescribed liquor to people for medical reasons