"Prohibition was so alcohol wasn't being made, sold, and transported in the USA. The reason being would be to prevent family violence due to booze, eliminate saloons, and prevent job accidents. People believed that alcohol was the problem of everything gone bad.The Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Having been approved by 36 states, the 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, and went into effect on January 16, 1920. While Prohibition was successful in reducing the amount of liquor consumed, it stimulated the proliferation of rampant underground, organized and widespread criminal activity. When prohibition was supposed to reduce crime. On March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Cullen-Harrison Act, legalizing alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content. On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. However, United States federal law still prohibits the manufacture of distilled spirits without meeting numerous licensing requirements that make it impractical to produce spirits for personal beverage use."(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2009/03/12-bad-effects-of-prohibition-you-should-know/)
Detroit, Michigan was known as "The bootleggers dream" "Prohibition took effect in the United States on January 17, 1920, but in Michigan prohibition wasn't anything effective. Michigan church, business, and community leaders had been working to ban the sale of alcoholic drinks since 1852, believing that such a ban would reduce crime and improve both family life and employee productivity. Their campaigns succeeded in 1916, when the citizens of Michigan approved a prohibition amendment to the state constitution. Bootlegging operations and smuggling networks formed within hours of Michigan’s prohibition going into effect on May 1, 1917." "Bootleggers turned to Canada, which had favorable liquor laws. Smugglers began trafficking bootlegged liquor across the Canadian border and into Michigan via the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and other waterways between Michigan and Ontario, an area which became known as the “Windsor-Detroit Funnel.” When the rivers and lakes froze in the winter, smugglers simply drove across them or skated across the ice, dragging sleds full of whiskey
(The Windsor-Detroit Funnel: Prohibition in DetroitPosted January 17th, 2012 by teller)
Business leaders believed their workers would be more productive if alcohol could be withheld from them. John D. Rockefeller, alone, donated over $350,000 into the Anti-Saloon League and Henry Ford boldly announced, "The country couldn't run without Prohibition. That is the industrial fact.” (http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-prohibitionspeakeasy.html)
(The Windsor-Detroit Funnel: Prohibition in DetroitPosted January 17th, 2012 by teller)
Business leaders believed their workers would be more productive if alcohol could be withheld from them. John D. Rockefeller, alone, donated over $350,000 into the Anti-Saloon League and Henry Ford boldly announced, "The country couldn't run without Prohibition. That is the industrial fact.” (http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-prohibitionspeakeasy.html)
Al Capone was a huge part of prohibition and why it did not affect much. Capone was a gangster who was making millions of dollars a year from illegal sales of alcohol. Capone got away with it by paying off the authorities to turn the other way and let him go on with his business. Al Capone was getting away with all of the bootlegging, But one of the officials reported him and trailed him for not paying taxes with all of the money he makes. Al Capone was put behind bars for thirteen years!
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