Essays on Prohibition Era

“Snap your burning chains, ye denizens of the pit, and come up sheeted in the fire, dripping with the flames of hell, and with your trumpet tongues testify against the damnation of drink!” By the late 1800s, people like John Bartholomew Gough, a reformed drinker...

The prohibition era is a fascinating time period because people were knowingly breaking the law, and everyone wanted to take part in it. This widespread wave began in the first decade of the twentieth century. Despite the ratification of the 18th Amendment, which banned the...

In 1919, the United States passed the 18th amendment, which banned the transportation and manufacture of alcohol in the United States starting in January of 1920. Alcohol was a problem of Americans because people often became alcoholics, resulting in broken families, lone children, and lots...

Prohibition failed. Even since American settling started, alcohol was consumed enormously and in large quantities. Many people, even since the start, fought for temperance – the regulation of alcohol consumption. A reason for this was the quantity of alcohol after cheap gin was introduced, first...

As an immigrant migrating to a foreign land, you are destined to be faced with many obstacles that might hinder your prosperity. For German Americans in the mid-1800’s the hurdles of language, politics, trust, customs, and alcohol set up these peoples for almost a century...