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Prohibition
What is Prohibiton? Prohibition is legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means.
Prohibition made drinking fashionable and exciting. Illegal bars known as speakeasies sprang up and the bootleggers—makers and suppliers of illegal alcohol—became heroes. Gangsters made fortunes from making and importing alcohol.
Punishment During Prohibition, the penalty for selling just one drink was five years in jail.
Prohibition became a law through the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in January 1919.
In defiance of highly unpopular laws banning alcohol, in the 1920s drinking became a symbol of independence and sophistication. People associated drinking with romance and adventure
Soon words such as bootlegger, speakeasy, and bath tub gin became household words.
The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in December 1933. It remains the only repealed amendment in the history of the Constitution.
Herbert Hoover called prohibition a "noble experiment," but the effort to regulate people's behavior soon ran into trouble. Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult.
