Prohibition was a huge social issue in the 1920 and lead to the eighteenth amendment which prohibited the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States. Prohibitionist considered alcohol an evil which caused violence, crime, sin, physical and mental illness. One of the most famous groups of prohibitionist was the Women’s Christin temperance union. The WCTU believe by making alcohol illegal they were protecting families from husbands who would spend their wages on alcohol and in drunken states abuse their families. Those who opposed prohibition thought by making something which a large number of citizens already enjoyed would lead to people producing it illegally and without proper supervision of the production of alcohol
