In the 1920’s they  made the eighteenth Amendment. It was called Prohibition. The reason they did this was because when men came home they would beat there wives and kids. Also, people would come to work drunk and  would sometimes get hurt. Religious groups were against it because they said that drinking was a sin.

Some of the effects of Prohibition were speakeasies and bootleggers. Speakeasies people spoke quietly or easily to avoid detection. Speakeasies were everywhere you could find them, in office in parks in penthouses, and tons of other plases where they could sell liquor   hidden. But to get in they would have to have a card or a password that someone gave you. It was usually middle class to upper-class people going. Before long people got smarter to get around the law and get liquor.The only people at the time that could have liquor was medicinal and religious purposes. People also got liqour from bootleggers. They would get wine, beer, ect. Bootleggers  would put it in their boots. They would get this stuff from Cuba, Canada, and the West Indies.

In the 1920’s there was organized crime  in nearly ever major city. A guy named Al Capone was the best gangster. He owned all the bootleggers and got $60 million a year. He killed all of his competition, 522 of them to be exact. He had over 10,000 speakeasies. In 1931 the gangster chief  was arrested for tax evasion and was sent to jail, that was the only thing they could find on him.

By the mid 1930’s only 19 percent of Americans supported Prohibition. The rest wanted the rule changed or repealed. They believed that Prohibition had awful effects. The eighteenth Amendment remained until 1933 when it was repealed by the 21st Amendment.