The 18th Amendment :: Alcohol

To tope or no? Ever since the first people stumbled across alcoholic drink (and then each other) this has been a question commonly asked. Statistics show that a majority of domestic force, automobile accidents, and rape, all involve (many clocks) alcohol. Whether one thinks intake is right or not has been asked by people for people from time to time. This would be the case of the 18th Amendment of 1919.The Act passed by those concerned with the preceding(prenominal) problems, prohibited the vending, transportation of, and consumption of alcohol. The law was intended to be enforced nation-wide. Police raided and trashed many vendors to stop their trade. Sometimes however, the police took their share of the whisky they were supposed to break, and paid reporters to look the other way. On the whole, prohibition was trenchant in smaller town/cities, but worked a bit little in the larger cities.It is said that for every market that is destroyed, a freshly underground market is c reated. This was exactly the case with prohibition. Though domestic violence did decrease, much crime increased. Bootlegers (people who made/sold their own whiskey) popped up everywhere. Speakeasies, which were underground bars, were frequented by virtually everyone. Seceret drinking was considered a glamorous thing-even in chapiter parties. Bootlegging gangs began to increase, thus an increase in street crime occured. virtuoso of the most famous of these gangsters was Al Capone. Capones bootlegging ring earned him around 60,000,000 dollars a year. One example of gang related crime was the St. Valentines daytime Massacre, in which Caponess gang gunned down and killed seven members of Bugs Morgans gang.