Why Was Prohibiton Introduced in the 1920s

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The Prohibition Era began in January 16th, 1920 when United States prohibited the manufacture and sale of mostly alcohol. And there are many reasons to the beginning of the Prohibition Era such as medical, social, economic and political. Many methods were set up that campaigned for Prohibition, an example of this would be the Anti-Saloon League. The Anti- Saloon League was the leading organization for National Prohibition in the United States, was a non-partisan political pressure group established in 1893. It was a single-issue lobbying group that had branches across the United States to work with churches in marshalling resources for the prohibition fight. Its primary base of support was among Protestant churches in rural areas and the South. Medically, by that time people started to realise that alcohol damaged our health and could affect our lives. Many American men suffered from sclerosis which is caused by alcohol and lung cancer from smoking cigarettes. Those people suffered badly and eventually died. Because of this, many children fought their lives without their fathers, which led to families’ financial problems. Economically, many labourers got drunk and so they could not perform the job properly. The absence from work each week was very high, therefore the company was less efficient. The company could not afford to produce the same products in the time that they should and the industrialists were not satisfied. Other people also insisted that buying beer meant that the money flew away to Germany because all of the brewers were actually located in Germany. The solution that people came up with was instead of helping Germany with her economy they should be using the money for their own countries necessities. Politically, many votes were won in rural areas because politicians promised to back up prohibition, which helped those politicians to win
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