The 18th Amendment :: Alcohol

To drink or no? eer since the first people stumbled across alcohol (and then each other) this has been a question commonly asked. Statistics show that a majority of domestic violence, car accidents, and rape, all involve (many times) alcohol. Whether one thinks purpose is right or non has been asked by people for people from time to time. This would be the case of the eighteenth Amendment of 1919.The Act passed by those concerned with the above-mentioned problems, prohibited the vending, transportation of, and consumption of alcohol. The law was intended to be enforced nation-wide. Police raided and trashed many vendors to embarrass their trade. Sometimes however, the police took their share of the whiskey they were supposed to break, and paid reporters to wait on the other way. On the whole, prohibition was effective in smaller townspeople/cities, but worked a bit less in the larger cities.It is tell that for every market that is destroyed, a new underground market is created . This was barely the case with prohibition. Though domestic violence did decrease, much crime accessiond. Bootlegers (people who make/sold their own whiskey) popped up everywhere. Speakeasies, which were underground bars, were frequented by virtually everyone. Seceret inebriation was considered a glamorous thing-even in Washington parties. Bootlegging gangs began to increase, thus an increase in street crime occured. One of the most famous of these gangsters was Al Capone. Capones bootlegging ring earned him approximately 60,000,000 dollars a year. One shell of gang related crime was the St. Valentines Day Massacre, in which Caponess gang gunned subject and killed seven members of Bugs Morgans gang.