Prohibition

****Prohibition began on January 16, 1920 when the 18th amendment went into effect. **
 * [[image:alcohol-still.gif width="186" height="223" align="right" caption="Alochol"]]During Prohibition transportation, import, export, manufacture, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes for support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead all that alcohol became more dangerous to consume; crime went out of control; courts and prisons system became overloaded; police and public officials occured.