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Prohibition was the eighteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. It prohibited the consumption, production, and the sale of alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment reads:
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress (Constitution).
There was wide spread crime and dismay that came about because of the eighteenth amendment. Prohibition was scarcely adhered to and widely defied. The only good thing that came out of prohibition was that women were able to voice their opinions and prove themselves.
In 1873, a doctor named Dio Lewis spoke in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. He talked about how women could work together and close down saloons. He spoke in Ohio on December 23, 1873 and then the next day sixty women answered his call. Eliza Thompson was the leader of this group. The group of women went around to drugstores and saloons trying to close them down. “Throughout this, they would sing songs, say prayer, and cry in tears” (Cause). They were not very well liked, but still their numbers grew everyday. By the next summer they had closed over a thousand saloons. Their raid on saloons and drugstores was called the Women’s Crusade (Cause). In 1896 there was an organization called the Anti-Saloon League. This league made the effort to...