“ Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was
intended to solve ” , which is actually true because since alcohol was seen as the devil’s
advocate , prohibition came along to try to put an end to all the crime , poverty and the
rest of the problems of America but instead made them worse by the creation of
organized crime like organized gangs who competed amongst each other to sell illegal
liquor and the development of stronger proof liquor and other new kinds of liquor too .
On Midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most
Americans suddenly came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and
all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor
was put to an end. Shortly following the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the
National Prohibition Act, or the Volstead Act, as it was called because of its author,
Andrew J.......
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