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Prohibition Effects On Society

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The Effects of Prohibition in the American Society
Prohibition in America was considered the war on alcohol. Prohibition happened from 1920 to 1933. People wanted to cut out alcohol altogether to try and better the United States. Prohibition leaders believed that once a businesses liquor license was taken away it would make people change their mind on drinking. Leaders had thought that the European Immigrants had brought their drinking problems across seas with them. Prohibition was one of America's biggest failures. No one listened to the law, they even believed it was okay to go against it. Because of the National prohibition act drinking had become an even bigger problem in the United States. The earliest wave of the prohibition movement
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