Prohibition-Per+2+2011

Alcohol was considered to be the cause of many evil actions. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Organize crime erupted, and cities were very corrupt. The women's christian temperance union in 1874 was a key in bringing prohibition in America because they thought it would protect families, women and children from the affects of alcohol. Speakeasies were the places where everyone would secretly purchase alcohol. This caused a lot of problems, and when prohibition ended it was necessary, because now the country had entered the Great Depression, and the alcohol sales were needed to help the economy.



Stephanie Ressler, Catherine Rodgers, Brian Sisti, Jane Joo