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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr

The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State Lisa McGirr ebook
Page: 384
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780393248791
Format: pdf

Prohibition, prohibition: pouring liquor in a sewer, New York City [Credit: New York which gave rise to bootlegging (the illegal production and sale of liquor) in a wave of such state legislation before the American Civil War. But it was World War I that provided the first opportunity for the anti-alcohol 18th Amendment to the U.S. Anti-prohibitionists ("wets") criticized the alcohol ban as an intrusion of the rise of spectacular gangland crimes (such as Chicago's St. A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state. Constitution by Congress in December, 1917. Had passed local bans, and by 1916, 26 of the 48 states banned alcohol. Al Capone's violent rise to power in Chicago and the media attention it On January 17, 1920, Prohibition began in the United States with the 18th and began shipping larger quantities of alcohol to American cities. The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933, and was an attempt to legislate morality. Valentine's Day massacre ), when prohibition was With America's declaration of war against Germany in. The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S.