What did prohibition do?

A number of western countries have tried to impose alcohol prohibition within the last 150 years, all in an unsuccessful attempt to prohibit the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Prohibition started in January 17, 1920 with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

National Prohibition in the US was from January 17 of 1920 to December 5 of 1933. Other countries have had prohibition at different dates.

National Prohibition of alcohol in the US outlawed the production, transportation and sale (but not the consumption) of alcoholic beverages. The movement began in the mid-nineteeth century and...

The Temperance Movement was focussed on a number of things. The primary factor was the protection of the family. Men spent their spare time in saloons instead of looking after their families. Money...