1920 th 18 Ever since Civil

1920

th 18 • Ever since Civil War of century people in US would drink more and more with every year. • All this time there were non-governmental organizations trying to ban the alcohol. • It was called a Temperance movement.

• There were lots of women who were certain that pubs and saloons, where their men spent time, were the center of Universal Evil. • US had a very strong Christian lobby that was dedicated to rooting the alcohol from the American culture.

• Prohibition was anything but sudden. There was a real information war against booze • By 1916 half the states already had the ban for alcohol. • After WW 1 the drinking problem got real bad and was asking for immediate solutions.

• 1919, October 28. The Volstead Act clarifies the 18 th Amendment to the US constitution about Prohibition. • Despite the demonstrations on the streets, Prohibition was announced to come into full effect in 1920, a year after the Act. • Prohibition lasted until December 5, 1933.

• Prohibition made practically every family in the US criminals

• Suddenly lots of people would want to become pharmacists

• Even more people found God and became priests

• Grape Growers got filthy rich • Unable to sell wine, they sold non-alcoholic dissolvable wine bricks. Add water, soda, let it brew in the dark place and voila!

• Hospitals became so much cleaner! • They asked for much more alcohol for sanitation purposes and cleaning

• Industries refused to stay dirty too! • Suddenly every industry needed a lot more alcohol for cleaning

• Since you could legally drink alcohol you have bought before 1920, people would store thousands of liters of alcohol for personal use

• Alcohol killed a lot of people during Prohibition – both by gangsters’ bullets and poisoning by cheap moonshine

• Crime rate hit the sky during Prohibition. Bootlegging, racket, robbery and murder came into everyday life.

• People before Prohibition got so much brainwashed by agenda, that alcohol is the true source of all sin, that they sold lots of public prisons just before Prohibition started. It led to severe overcrowding in prisons all over the country.

• Cocktails became more popular than ever, because they had to water down cheap alcohol with something tasty.

• “Booze Cruises” became popular with rich people. Going just nowhere in the international waters, they took the passengers to Boozyland

• Do you drink alcohol? • Do you follow the prices on alcohol these days? • Do you think alcohol should be made cheaper or more expensive?

• Do you think Prohibition was a good idea, inherently? • Why do you think Prohibition failed? • Why was there such a huge crime rate in the US because of the Prohibition?

• What would you have changed in Prohibition, were it to be evoked in the future, to make it more efficient? Why does the country usually try to control the alcohol prices?