Groups such as Anti-Saloon League who were often Christians believed that the use of alcohol was a sin.
Many people blamed alcohol for crime, violence, breakdown of marriages and sexual immorality.
20th January 1920 the government agreed to the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution banned the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol.
The law reflected the countryside and cities because many people in cities such as New York and Chicago still wanted to drink and resented this attack in their personal freedom.
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Organsied Crime
Some Americans produced their own alcohol called moonshine or bath-tub gin this was often damaging to their health
To meet the needs of Americans who still wanted to drink 'organied crime'set up an alternative an illegal industry producing and selling 'booze'
'Bootleggers'smuggled alcohol across the Canadian border or opened up secret breweries to make thier own drink
'Speakeasies'were illegal bars which could be found in every town in the Country
Gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran ran rival gangs to control the Bootlegging, the avoid prosecution by bribing politicians and policemen.
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