Many historians since 1933 have pondered the Eighteenth Amendment, better known as prohibition, and the Twenty-first Amendment, better known as the repeal of prohibition. One question that pops into many of the historian’s heads while researching the topic is, “Who or whom is to blame/give credit for for the banning of alcohol in the United States of America?” The answers to this question are varied and abundant with different opinions from researches on the topic. Thomas Fleming has strong viewpoints that oppose the banning of alcohol in the country. Fleming talks about the negatives not having alcohol around will be. Then, we have Andrew Sinclair; Sinclair wrote about the benefits Prohibition brought to the United States when alcohol was
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Prohibition is the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol. This was put into effect in the United States from 1920-1933. The ban of alcohol was widely unpopular amongst people across the nation. Many people continued to make alcohol illegally and drink and sell it, which caused many to also get sick because of it being unsafe. It’s popular to think of the Roaring 20’s at a time where people snuck around drinking the majority of the time, but the amount of people who drank actually decreased by as much as 70% when the law was still new. There were many pros and cons to the Eighteenth Amendment as Fleming and Sinclair will touch …show more content…
more critical of each other, more self-conscious... harder, drabber in speech. Iced water, ice cream, icy eyes, icy words. Gone the mellowness, generosity, good humor, good nature of life. Enter the will-bound, calculating, material, frigid human machine. Strange that the removal of this thing, supposed to pander to the animal in us, makes one feel less a man and more an animal, above all, an ant…. Although who knows? Ants may drink.” Here, Andrew Sinclair compares humans who are intoxicated to nothing more than an animal. Overall, he has made the claims that prohibition was a positive outcome from the drunkard midwestern, middle-class country folk. He was a Protestant who believed that the banning of alcohol would bring good fortune to the country. They believed that Prohibition would bring
Prohibition is the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol. This was put into effect in the United States from 1920-1933. The ban of alcohol was widely unpopular amongst people across the nation. Many people continued to make alcohol illegally and drink and sell it, which caused many to also get sick because of it being unsafe. It’s popular to think of the Roaring 20’s at a time where people snuck around drinking the majority of the time, but the amount of people who drank actually decreased by as much as 70% when the law was still new. There were many pros and cons to the Eighteenth Amendment as Fleming and Sinclair will touch …show more content…
more critical of each other, more self-conscious... harder, drabber in speech. Iced water, ice cream, icy eyes, icy words. Gone the mellowness, generosity, good humor, good nature of life. Enter the will-bound, calculating, material, frigid human machine. Strange that the removal of this thing, supposed to pander to the animal in us, makes one feel less a man and more an animal, above all, an ant…. Although who knows? Ants may drink.” Here, Andrew Sinclair compares humans who are intoxicated to nothing more than an animal. Overall, he has made the claims that prohibition was a positive outcome from the drunkard midwestern, middle-class country folk. He was a Protestant who believed that the banning of alcohol would bring good fortune to the country. They believed that Prohibition would bring