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During the 1. 9th century, alcoholism, family violence, and saloon based political corruption prompted activists, led by pietistic Protestants, to end the alcoholic beverage trade to cure the ill society and weaken the political opposition. One result was that many communities in the late 1. Prohibition supporters, called drys, presented it as a victory for public morals and health. Promoted by the dry crusaders, the movement was led by pietistic Protestants and social Progressives in the Prohibition, Democratic, and Republican parties. It gained a national grass roots base through the Womans Christian Temperance Union. After 1. 90. 0 it was coordinated by the Anti Saloon League. Opposition from the beer industry mobilized wet supporters from the Catholic and German Lutheran communities. Watch Frankie Go Boom Online Hollywoodreporter more. They had funding to fight back but by 1. German community had been marginalized by the nations war against Germany, and the brewing industry was shut down in state after state by the legislatures and finally nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1. Enabling legislation, known as the Volstead Act, set down the rules for enforcing the federal ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. For example, religious use of wine was allowed. Private ownership and consumption of alcohol were not made illegal under federal law, but local laws were stricter in many areas, with some states banning possession outright. In the 1. 92. 0s the laws were widely disregarded, and tax revenues were lost. Very well organized criminal gangs took control of the beer and liquor supply for many cities, unleashing a crime wave that shocked the nation. By the late 1. 92. Wets attacked prohibition as causing crime, lowering local revenues, and imposing rural Protestant religious values on urban America. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 5, 1. Watch Stellar Online on this page. Some states continued statewide prohibition, marking one of the last stages of the Progressive Era. Although popular opinion believes that Prohibition failed, it succeeded in cutting overall alcohol consumption in half during the 1. Prohibition levels until the 1. Prohibition did socialize a significant proportion of the population in temperate habits, at least temporarily. Some researchers contend that its political failure is attributable more to a changing historical context than to characteristics of the law itself. Criticism remains that Prohibition led to unintended consequences such as the growth of urban crime organizations and a century of Prohibition influenced legislation. As an experiment it lost supporters every year, and lost tax revenue that governments needed when the Great Depression began in 1. HistoryeditIn the United States, once the battle against slavery was won indeed, even before it, social moralists turned to other issues, such as Mormon polygamy and the temperance movement. The U. S. Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 1. On November 1. 8, 1. Eighteenth Amendment, the U. S. Congress passed the temporary Wartime Prohibition Act, which banned the sale of alcoholic beverages having an alcohol content of greater than 1. This act, which had been intended to save grain for the war effort, was passed after the armistice ending World War I was signed on November 1. Upon being approved by a 3. January 1. 6, 1. 91. Constitution. The Wartime Prohibition Act took effect June 3. July 1, 1. 91. 9, becoming known as the Thirsty First. On October 2. 8, 1. Congress passed the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilsons veto. The act established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them. Although the Volstead Act prohibited the sale of alcohol, the federal government lacked resources to enforce it. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 1. By 1. 92. 5, in New York City alone, there were anywhere from 3. While Prohibition was successful in reducing the amount of liquor consumed, it stimulated the proliferation of rampant underground, organized and widespread criminal activity. Many were astonished and disenchanted with the rise of spectacular gangland crimes such as Chicagos Saint Valentines Day Massacre in 1. Prohibition lost its advocates one by one, while the wet opposition talked of personal liberty, new tax revenues from legal beer and liquor, and the scourge of organized crime. On March 2. 2, 1. President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the CullenHarrison Act, legalizing beer with an alcohol content of 3. On December 5, 1. Twenty first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. However, United States federal law still prohibits the manufacture of distilled spirits without meeting numerous licensing requirements that make it impractical to produce spirits for personal beverage use. OriginseditThe Drunkards Progress A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1. Consumption of alcoholic beverages has been a contentious topic in America since the colonial period. In May 1. 65. 7, the General Court of Massachusetts made the sale of strong liquor whether known by the name of rum, whisky, wine, brandy, etc. Indians illegal. 1. In general, informal social controls in the home and community helped maintain the expectation that the abuse of alcohol was unacceptable. Drunkenness was condemned and punished, but only as an abuse of a God given gift. Drink itself was not looked upon as culpable, any more than food deserved blame for the sin of gluttony. Excess was a personal indiscretion. When informal controls failed, there were legal options. Shortly after the United States obtained independence, the Whiskey Rebellion took place in western Pennsylvania in protest of government imposed taxes on whiskey. Although the taxes were primarily levied to help pay down the newly formed national debt, it also received support from some social reformers, who hoped a sin tax would raise public awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol. The whiskey tax was repealed after Thomas Jeffersons Democratic Republican Party, which opposed the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton, came to power in 1. Benjamin Rush, one of the foremost physicians of the late eighteenth century, believed in moderation rather than prohibition. In his treatise, The Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind 1. Rush argued that the excessive use of alcohol was injurious to physical and psychological health, labeling drunkenness as a disease. Apparently influenced by Rushs widely discussed belief, about 2. Connecticut community formed a temperance association in 1. Similar associations were formed in Virginia in 1. New York in 1. 80. Within a decade, other temperance groups had formed in eight states, some of them being statewide organizations. The words of Rush and other early temperance reformers served to dichotomize the use of alcohol for men and women. While men enjoyed drinking and often considered it vital to their health, women who began to embrace the ideology of true motherhood refrained from consumption of alcohol. Middle class women, who were considered the moral authorities of their households, consequently rejected the drinking of alcohol, which they believed to be a threat to the home. In 1. 83. 0, on average, Americans consumed 1. 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