Prohibition: The Ignoble Experiment

Part I of Essay
The 18th Amendment , considered to be one of the biggest follies of the nation, was brought about with the intent to sincerely help the U.S., but more harm came from it than good. Prohibition, also known as the 18th Amendment , was ratified on January 29th, 1920 and was r ....

Part II of Essay
.... already facing. People believed that prohibition would fail and that it was a violation of a person's privacy while other people thought that prohibition would do nothing but improve America. People who were against prohibition were called wets and people for it were called drys. Wets mainly consisted of democrats who refused to stop drinking and who were usually older men or immigrants who drank all their life. The drys were usually republican Protestants who believed alcohol was evil and that prohibition was the answer to societies probl ....