Prohibition:
Prohibition was started in the 1920's. The American Senate sent a forward to the Constitution about the eighteenth Amendment to pass the law of banning the sale of alcohol in the United States. The reason the Prohibition started was because throughout the 18th and 19th Century Physicians talked about the illiness and drunkenness and likened it to mental problems. in 1917 the 65th congress was formed and there was 204 members and 140 of the people favored the prohibition. January 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution came into effect and then it was illegal to sell or manufacture alcohol. The ended up naming this Amendement the National Prohibition Act or you could call it the Volstead Act. Because it was not illeagal to drink alcohol so the people were making their own alcohol out of fruits, so then people were starting to sell it on the streets.
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