Prohibition
Social
-supported in the south to control African Americans and keep them from "burst[ing] out of their place."
-supported in the West because it attacked western saloons: public drunkenness, prostitution, corruption and crime
-this anti-alcohol movement was lead by churches and women
-those who were against it drank at a large scale
Political
-alcohol was made illegal by the Eighteenth Amendment
-18th amendment was supported by the Volstead Act, passed by congress-law was hard to enact because many people did not find drinking alcohol something illegal
Economic
-most were able to sell alcohol through “speakeasies,” secret bars
-moonshiners, or people who made their own liquor, received good business but were at a threat of serious injuries
-supported in the south to control African Americans and keep them from "burst[ing] out of their place."
-supported in the West because it attacked western saloons: public drunkenness, prostitution, corruption and crime
-this anti-alcohol movement was lead by churches and women
-those who were against it drank at a large scale
Political
-alcohol was made illegal by the Eighteenth Amendment
-18th amendment was supported by the Volstead Act, passed by congress-law was hard to enact because many people did not find drinking alcohol something illegal
Economic
-most were able to sell alcohol through “speakeasies,” secret bars
-moonshiners, or people who made their own liquor, received good business but were at a threat of serious injuries