Enforcing the new law of Prohibition creates problems.
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
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Enforcing the new law of Prohibition creates problems.
With gangsters terrorizing the public and profiting from the sale of alcohol, many citizens believed Prohibition was unsuccessful, which led to its repeal.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League push for an amendment to the Constitution, outlawing alcohol nationally.
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