Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States
In the United States from 1920 up until 1933 the government tried something called the Noble Experiment or otherwise known as prohibition. This action made by the government was closely related to the temperance movement in the United States at that time. Although prohibition was put in place and it banned all alcohol, many people still found ways around it. Organized crime became a problem and they had clubs set up with back rooms that the police couldn't find so that they could still serve alcohol to citizens.
Prohibition by the government was put in place in 1920. The temperance movement had been pushing to get alcohol banned since the end of the revolutionary war. The temperance movement was a group of people that thought alcohol was being abused and everyone should stop drinking all together. The temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society's ills, especially crime and murder. Saloons in the Midwest were something that men saw as a haven. Women of the Midwest thought that Saloons were evil places where men would drink too much at lunch and have accidents in the latter part of the day or just spend all the family income there on drinks. Prohibition became a hot topic of the first World War as well. Since there were many soldiers overseas some people felt that the grain used for the huge amount of alcohol consumption should be used to feed them rather than get Americans at home drunk. Pictures were even found in newspapers that were written by cartoonists that showed brewers stabbing American soldiers in the back. (Muscoreil np.). There were temperance groups in nearly every state by the 1920 and they finally pushed the government to add an 18th amendment to the constitution. In 1916 over half of the U.S. states already had statutes that prohibited alcohol (Rosenburg np.). In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale and manufacturing of alcohol, was ratified. It went into effect...