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__ Prohibition __



Prohibition banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. The 18th Amendment is what ratified this banning. This Amendment was ratified on January 29, 1919 but to enforce, simply because even most authorities wanted to get their hands on alcohol. The increase of illegal production and sell of alcohol was known as “bootlegging”. Everyone wanted alcohol and they went to any extent to get it. Many might question why the 18th Amendment was even adapted. Alcohol caused dysfunctional families and marriages. Also, alcohol took the income of most families because the husbands would spend most their checks on getting drunk. Another problem with alcohol was men would drink on lunch breaks’, therefore, some would suffer from injuries. Much gang violence and criminal activity also started going on as a result of prohibition. The 18th Amendment was mainly put in place for the safety of people. When the Stock Market Crash in 1929 and the Great Depression was beginning many people needed jobs and government needed money. Government and other people started to realize that the sales of alcohol would give tax money to the government. Also, that the sale of alcohol would produce more work force for people. With everyone in desperate need of money and jobs prohibition was overlooked and the production of alcohol became legal again.



Prohibition- 1900’s-1930 for Men and Women

Many men at this time period would be the ones working outs ide the home, and the women stayed home to take care of the children and home. The men would work long hours, making them stressed out. So the men would go out after work and blow a lot of money on alcohol, and other vices. When the men did this the family’s at home wouldn’t have any money. When your family gets in a lot of fights there’s a lot of problems between the parents then. The women hated it that the men spent all the money on beer, other vices, and couldn’t do anything about it. But there was a way the women could escape all of the drunk and wild behavior, most of the time the parents would get divorces. A lot of the marriages didn’t last through this time period because the women couldn’t deal with it. The women would do all the work around the house and it would get destroyed when the men got home or when their buddy’s came over. Women would leave the men and take the kids so they would be taken care of. Most of the marriages didn't last and went to crap so that's how it effected men and women.



__ Upper Class effects of Prohibition __

Prohibition effected many people in different ways. For the upper class it actually increased illegal acts. Many upper class people still found ways to get alcohol. Bootleggers were the ones everyone went to in order to get their supplies of alcohol. Prohibition was far more restricted to the lower class and working class than the middle class and upper class. Prohibition was more restricted to lower class because they didn’t have the money to buy their supply of alcohol. Also, they couldn’t afford to get caught and arrested for illegal acts. Upper class enjoyed drinking at home they found it more sophisticated and proper. The upper class had the advantage of having money and knowing many people. Having money and knowing many people made it way easier for them to get their hands on alcohol.

With the upper class having plenty of money, they could afford to face the consequences of drinking alcohol even though it was illegal. Upper class had no worries and weren't really effected by Prohibition. If they got arrested for the consumption of alcohol or got arrested for anything at that, they could just buy their way out of it.

media type="custom" key="26012782" Middle Class The middle class did not have to worry about their money like the lower class had to. To the middle class social drinking in the home was a sign of respectability and sophistication. There were some women that were protestant from the men drinking. These women were against the men drinking alcohol because they said that it was a supreme threat to a happy home. The bars or saloons kept the men away from the home which they often came home abusive to their wife and sometimes children. It was said that the middle and upper class women couldn’t be caught with a bottle of alcohol in their hand in the open like the lower class could.

Lower Class The lower class was the working class of the 1920's. Men worked for the money but once they got paid they went and spent all of the money on booze. This urged the women because they weren’t home most of the time, they were drinking at saloons. The men shortly stopped working and started having the women work in the factories or where the men used to work. The women sometimes got hurt because the jobs that they were doing was what men should be doing for their families. Lower class people defiantly had to work harder for their money compared to middle class and upper class. The lower class woman did sometimes drink but defiantly not as much as the men during this time period.

Essential Question


 * What are the benefits and drawbacks of experimentation in our society and our lives more specifically? **


 * The benefits of experimentation in our society, could be that if you’re wealthy or have access to money you could afford to perform the experiment, so the public could use it. One of the downfalls at that time would be if you didn’t have money then you’re experiment could have been copyright or you couldn’t afford to perform the experiment. **


 * The benefits for the new experimentation, is it makes every day life easier. The rich could and still can afford to buy the new inventions that came out. It makes everything faster for the everyday person and it’s amazing at first. The people that have access to money didn’t and still don’t really care what they buy if the invention sucks oh well in their minds. But the downfall is that the poor can’t afford all this new stuff that came and keeps coming out. Like the vehicles polite the air and cause problems to the earth. Some stuff maybe amazing at first but there will always be problems with the inventions that keep coming out. **


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