Topic > The Causes of the Prohibition Movement - 1010

The Prohibition movement was established by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution at 12:01 pm on the seventeenth of January, nineteen hundred and twenty. Shortly after the Americans made the change, six bandits forcibly emptied two freight cars full of whiskey from a boxcar in Chicago. Later another gang stole four barrels of grain alcohol from a government-bonded warehouse. Subsequently, for the third time in a row, a final gang seized a truck transporting whisky. When the introduction of alcohol began in the nineteenth century, the application of the law of dry motion was a much debated issue. Supporters, also known as dryers, hailed the movement as a victory for morals and public health. Anti-Dryers, known as Wets, criticized the alcohol ban as an intrusion of mainly rural Protestant ideals and a central aspect of urban, Catholic life. In the years 1919 to 1922, alcohol consumption had dramatically decreased. . During World War I, when the temporary wartime ban was in full force. With the effect of unavailability of alcohol supplies, this affected social class unevenly, and people less fortunate than other people came to the explanation that alcohol was becoming more and more expensive, due to the scarcity of supply legal and therefore working class. consumption has decreased. Saloons began to go out of business, and the source of the working class's temptation to drink was permanently removed. This is the proof in which progressive and improving effects on the measure of poverty appeared to the prohibitionists. However, middle-class citizens, who had previously not been heavy drinkers, but teetotalers or light drinkers, were able... a paper organization... to create a union of women of all states for the purpose of educating their young children and begin the formation of better public feeling and the reform of the drinking classes which transformed the power of divine grace of those who are slaves to alcohol and removed by law the bars from our streets. During the American Revolution, alcohol began to become more and more popular. To control the level of alcohol, numerous societies were formed as part of the Temperance Movement. After the organization initially pushed modernization, the movements began to not only change, but compete with prohibition and alcohol consumption. Alcohol was blamed for evils by the Temperance Movement and especially crime and murder were the main factors and concerns. Despite being seen by many organizations, saloons were still major hangouts for alcohol consumers.