• How the prohibition of alcohol consumption damaged the economic and social aspects of American culture.

     

    Essays2 History, Culture

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Published: 05.09.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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Extract

There are many ways in which the prohibition of alcohol consumption in the United States of America, damaged the very economic and social aspects of American culture, that it was designed to heal.
"Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it added to the problems it was intended to solve." On 16th January 1920, one of the most common personal habits and customs of American society came to a halt. The eighteenth amendment was implemented, making all importing, exporting, transporting, selling and manufacturing of intoxicating liquors absolutely
prohibited. This law was created in the…

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