From Wiki "Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933."
Do you think Prohibition helped to better our country or did it make conditions worse? Could it happen again?
Prohibition largely worked.
Prior to this, Americans drank FAR more booze than they do today... and much of that booze was unregulated, there was no law about reporting alcohol content, etc.... and while there were age restrictions, they were almost never enforced. Alcoholism was a much bigger problem in the USA.
Prohibition caused the great majority of Americans to stop drinking (and gave rise to "soft drinks" - all of which boomed during these years and since; also milk drinking dramatically rose during this period). When Prohibition was eliminated, drinking never returned to anywhere near the levels of before.... there were far more restrictions on the production and sale of booze... and Americans continued to enjoy milk and soft drinks (both actually ROSE after booze came back). The quality of booze also dramatically improved; if Americans drank, they now wanted good booze (or at least better).
MOVIES like to portray this period every differently than the reality. YES, there was "bathtub gin" and there were a tiny number of "speakeasies" and yes organized crime (which predates Prohibition; it wasn't created by prohibition but it did take advantage of it) but the reality was far different than what the movies convey.
Prohibition was overturned simply because Americans became less concerned about it and increasingly viewed it as unnecessary.
