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A 5 page paper which examines the time between 1920 and 1933, when the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibited the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in America. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGprohib.rtf
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anti-alcohol crusaders, was alive and well during the closing days of World War I, where the prohibition campaign was in full swing. Supporters vigorously argued that prohibition would enable
the citizens to reap considerable economic benefits, result in significant decreases in crime, and would also restore Americas Christian foundation. The late entry of the United States in World
War I in 1917 provided prohibitionists with the patriotic impetus it needed to generate widespread appeal to the masses (Bryce, 2000). According to industrialist Herbert Hoover, the grain used
in making liquor "could provide 11 million loaves of bread a day for the allied soldiers" (Bryce, 2000, p. 37). Although the regulation of alcohol had been historically regarded
as a state issue, by 1919 the federal government took direct aim with the National Prohibition Enforcement Act (also known as the Volstead Act), which proposed to halt the sale
and manufacturing of liquor (Clark, 1991). The Act defined liquor as "alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine, and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous,
malt or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented, or not, and by whatever name called, containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume
which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furthermore, according to the Act, "Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place
of any kind where intoxicating liquor is sold, manufactured, kept for sale, or bartered in violation of the War Prohibition Act, and all intoxicating liquor and all property kept and
used in maintaining such a place, is hereby declared to be a public and common nuisance, and any person who maintains or assists in maintaining such public and common nuisance
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