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Chapter 17 Prohibition The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established a prohibition on alcoholic beverages in the US by making the production, transport and sales of alcohol illegal. The Volstead Act was to enforce the intent of the 18th amendment. The reason prohibition was enforced was because women were gaining more righting in this "progressive era." The women in the progressive era, more specifically the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (nick named the "dry crusaders"), had enough of their husbands coming home after a long day drunk and abusing them and now that they had a "voice" in this era, they had they opportunity to make alcohol illegal. Alcohol was a "vice" for some people. A vice is things people do to pass time when they have nothing to do. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th which allowed alcohol to be legal. Text: "Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 16 Nov. 2015. .

"Prohibition in the United States." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 16 Nov. 2015. .

"Volstead Act." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 16 Nov. 2015. .

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