did the prohibition help abloish the sale of liquor in the us??
2007-08-17 07:47:55 · 11 answers · asked by kansas city girlie 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
That is what it was.....
Prohibition
The govenrment prohibited the sale of liquor in 1920 and then repealed the law in 1933. For those 13 years it was illegal to manufacture or transport liquor.
g-day!
2007-08-17 11:33:47 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite the contrary. Sale and use of liquor actually went up, crime flourished as the supplier and politicians and police were paid off to look the other way. It's best summed up by the following from the editiorial pages of the NY Times in those days:
"Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it!
It doesn't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it!
It's brought an era of graft and crime.
It's filled our land with vice and slime.
It don't prohibit worth a dime.
Nevertheless, we're for it!"
2007-08-17 09:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a nutshell: No.
The Volstead Act (1919) enabled the government to enforce the 18th amendment to the constitution, which banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquors in the United States. It actually increased the sale of liquor in the united states, and really was the biggest boost to organized crime the nation had ever seen.
The happiest day this nation has ever seen, was December the 5th 1933, when congress ratified the 21st amendment, which repealed the 18th amendment, and once again legalized booze. YAY!
2007-08-17 11:28:51 · answer #3 · answered by mikosin357 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heckity no! The "sale" of liquor in the US flourished during the period of prohibition. Old Joe Kennedy, father of JFK, was only one of an army of folks who got rich from the sale of liquor at that time.
It was a little like drugs in the 1960's. More people than ever drank, or started drinking, because it was "prohibited."
2007-08-17 09:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by James@hbpl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prohibition (1920-1933) abolished the legal sale of alcohol in the U.S but created a huge underground economy of illegally supplied alcoholic beverages.
2007-08-17 08:00:36 · answer #5 · answered by Michael J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference is that beer and liquor have been an integral part of Western --if not world-- culture for thousands of years --some say beer >caused< civilisation -- and drugs have been a relatively sporadic phenomenon.
Tho' I agree that legalizing pot is an idea at least worth exploring.
Here's a nice compromise: how bout we legalize pot, but provide for summary curbside execution of coke/heroin/meth/etc. dealers?
2007-08-17 10:32:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly; no more so than the "war on drugs" has decreased the availability of pot. :)
If anything, the prohibition increased the demand for alcohol, spawning the advent of infamous speakeasies.
Americans love things that are bad for them. I think it may have been Oscar Wilde who said, "Ever thing I love is either illegal, immoral or fattening."
2007-08-17 07:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by Blixa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it did help the abloish the sale of liquor in the us
2007-08-17 07:51:13 · answer #8 · answered by jacqueline s 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it did abolish the legal sale,but speakeasys sprang up from coast to coast as wel las bathtub gin, rum runners became famous,and gangsters made huge profits from sale of illegal liquors
2007-08-17 08:16:04 · answer #9 · answered by sshueman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what is the nobl experiment?
2016-01-25 09:04:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋