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2. In What Ways Did Prohibition Change Us Society In The 1920s Shaquile Noor
1. 2. In what ways did Prohibition
change US society in the 1920's
Soon After the ASL had taken political action with help of many citizens, the
quot;Volstead Actquot; had been nationally passed. For around the first year the
amendment had worked, the consumption of liquor had dropped, drunk and
disorderly arrests had dropped and the price for illegal alcohol use had risen
higher than an averager wage worker could afford. Alcohol consumption had
dropped by over 30%, the USA Brewers' assosiation admitted a 50% drop of
hard liquor during Prohibition.
The drop in Alcoholic use did not reflect the growing disobedience towards the
law though as the intensity of the drink consumer's in the past had been
outmatched by the outraged citizen's who wanted to drink, this made enforcing
Prohibition extremely difficult to enforce. Soon after a couple months had passed,
bootlegging and illegal transportation of liquor had begun and the law had soon
become ineffective to the past consumers of alcohol, if anything the quot;Volstead
Actquot; had in the long run ended up being more troublesome to the public and
government as hidden bars called Speakeasie's had occured, in fact there were
a range of 30,000 to 100,000 Speakeasies in New York alone, they would charge
double the amount that a legal bar would have charged, leaving families in even
more poverty than before and in the past for example a husband may have had a
beer at home whilst watching TV, this was no longer the case as at these bar's
were dancers, leading the man into the idea of not only going against the law but
also cheating on his wife. The demand on Alcohol by this time was proposterous
and immensely outweighing the sobriety of the public. The quot;Volstead Actquot; had
made life in America all in all more violent and uneasy to live, rebellion against
the law had rised higher than before.
As drinking was now illegal, gangsters and mobs came around to supply all those
people who did not go to the speakeasie's, this was the reason that gangs and
gang related violence such as the valentines day massacre arose. The most
famous gangster at the time was Al-Capone or quot;Scarfacequot;. He was not the best
but infact probably the most obvious and stupid, he did not hide from the police
but instead let everyone know who he was. Al-Capone was convincted of
common crimes at the time such as bootlegging and racketeering, he was the
boss of a group called the Chicago Outfit. Al-Capone died January 25th 1947,
aged 48.
