The document summarizes the prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933. It discusses how the 18th Amendment and Volstead Act banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol. This led to the rise of an underground market and increased crime controlled by gangs making money from illegal alcohol. As a result, prohibition failed to achieve its goal and crime and death rates increased. The 21st Amendment was then passed in 1933 to repeal prohibition.

1. Extra Credit Journal: The Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S By Jonathan Covarrubias History 141 (Tue/Thurs, 11-12:20)

2. The Prohibition of Alchol What was the prohibition of alcohol? Simply put, the prohibition was the ban which made, selling, manufacturing and transporting alcohol illegal. (1920-1933 The Volstead Act- Prohibited intoxication beverages, regulated the manufactruing, sale or transport (but not consumtption) of alcohol, and to ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye and other lawful industries and practices, such as religious rituals. Temperance movement- social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. This was a movement that people often made the assumption that alcohol was the reason for poverty, issues with health and crime.

3. The 18th Amendment The 18th amendment was proposed on December 18th, 1917, and became effective Jan 17th 1920. While the consumption of alcohol was being reduced by the act, underground criminal activity became rampant. After all the sacrfices made during WW1, giving up consuming alcohol wasnt one of them, and there was also widespread reports, that congressmen were consuimg alcohol, and the soldiers returning from war did not approve. Lower class citizens were not allowed to drink, while upper class citizens could afford to buy illicit alcohol. Profits from illegal alcohol led to crime in the underground market for competition. As a result of the probihibtion, people consumed more alcohol, and death as well as crime numbers were up. Because the law was so hard to regulate, and it was easy for officers to receive bribe and easy acces for criminals to make money.

4. The end of an Era It's obvious that by abolishing a privileged, crime rates sky rocketed, gangs took over, and things overall got alot worse, and maybe the prohibition was not the best solution. the 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment of the U.S Constitution ending the prohibition.

5. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution