When the English settlers came to New England in 1607 they celebrated their journey by pressing their beer mugs and wine glasses together and proposing toasts. To this day, on New Year 's Eve, drinking alcohol is still apart of the celebration to start off the upcoming year with a positive attitude. People also drink at weddings, college graduations, when rooting for one’s favorite football team to win the superbowl, and simply just because someone had a good day. Prohibition was later introduced to help reduce crime, corruption, and to help reduce the tax burden. This made selling and producing alcohol illegal which caused major bedlam. People found other substitutes for alcohol such as illegal drugs and other illegal activities, to keep
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They sailed to the new lands on the Mayflower, which was known as the “wine vessel”, and they drank wine and beer in replacement of water, which was a much safer commodity since microorganisms cannot survive that long in beer or wine versus water. (DJ Spiess). They also drank alcohol as a way to cure their sinus infections and any flu like symptoms. They mixed a small shot of whiskey with hot water, honey and lemon juice and this would relieve any nasal congestion (huffingtonpost.com). “Researchers at Carnegie Mellon in 1993, looked at 391 adults and found that resistance to colds increased with moderate drinking, except in smokers.” Without further adieu alcohol has been proven to prevent sinus infections and fight off colds for a long …show more content…
It also caused people to stray from religion, and to do things that supposedly unGodly, like killing people during illegal activities and doing drugs. The pre-Prohibition crime rate was 5.6 percent and during prohibition it nearly double per 100,000 people. State prisons saw a enormous increases/ additions, which placed a large financial burden on all levels of government. This new burden provoked a need for more tax revenues, threatened the vibrant economy of the 1920s and limited government options once the economy worth began to decrease. The term bathtub gin appeared during the early 1920’s and refers to any type of homemade producing of alcohol in amateur conditions. This meant the production of moonshine greatly soared as this is the only popular type of homemade alcohol, even though gin was the most prevalent type of drink during this
They sailed to the new lands on the Mayflower, which was known as the “wine vessel”, and they drank wine and beer in replacement of water, which was a much safer commodity since microorganisms cannot survive that long in beer or wine versus water. (DJ Spiess). They also drank alcohol as a way to cure their sinus infections and any flu like symptoms. They mixed a small shot of whiskey with hot water, honey and lemon juice and this would relieve any nasal congestion (huffingtonpost.com). “Researchers at Carnegie Mellon in 1993, looked at 391 adults and found that resistance to colds increased with moderate drinking, except in smokers.” Without further adieu alcohol has been proven to prevent sinus infections and fight off colds for a long …show more content…
It also caused people to stray from religion, and to do things that supposedly unGodly, like killing people during illegal activities and doing drugs. The pre-Prohibition crime rate was 5.6 percent and during prohibition it nearly double per 100,000 people. State prisons saw a enormous increases/ additions, which placed a large financial burden on all levels of government. This new burden provoked a need for more tax revenues, threatened the vibrant economy of the 1920s and limited government options once the economy worth began to decrease. The term bathtub gin appeared during the early 1920’s and refers to any type of homemade producing of alcohol in amateur conditions. This meant the production of moonshine greatly soared as this is the only popular type of homemade alcohol, even though gin was the most prevalent type of drink during this