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A 6 page overview of the many family impacts of Prohibition. The author points out the positive impacts of the decrease in alcohol consumption but contrasts them with the societal costs of the black market that emerged. Bibliography list 5 sources.
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The period that is known as the Prohibition formally began with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the National Prohibition Enforcement Act. Put into
effect on January 17, 1920, this Act prohibited both the production and sale of alcoholic beverages if those beverages had an alcohol content of over 0.5 percent (Foner and Garraty,
1991). In reality, however, prohibition sentiment dated back much further in time than the date that the Constitutional Amendment was implemented. For at least a century, in fact,
there had been a growing concern over the gamut of societal problems that were associated with alcohol consumption. The Prohibition, therefore, both resulted from the impact alcohol had had
on American families and made an impact of its own. The Prohibition was anything but an overnight development. Nor was
it based on whimsy. The problems that American families had been experiencing as a result of alcohol were in fact long lived and based on a very real rate
of alcohol production and consumption. In the 1830s, for example, an average of 7.1 gallons of absolute alcohol was consumed per capita per year by those Americans that were
considered of drinking age (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Obviously, alcohol consumption was indeed a very real problem even a full century
before the implementation of Prohibition. Two points are necessary to clarify in regard to the statistic presented above, however. The first is the definition of "absolute alcohol".
As a point of reference, hard liquor or 80 proof liquors such as whiskey are comprised of forty percent absolute alcohol while beers and wines are composed of only three
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