Prohibition - Things To Remember While Reading Excerpts From The Eighteenth Amendment—prohibition Of Intoxicating Liquors:
Things to remember while reading excerpts from the Eighteenth Amendment—Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors:
- Prohibition officially went into effect on January 16, 1920.
- Prohibitionists believed enforcement would be easy and inexpensive.
- Crime syndicates had previously been organized around gambling, prostitution, and other vices. It readily adapted to the new financial bonanza of bootlegging illegal liquor.
- Since the United States did not have a personal income tax until 1915, money from liquor taxes became a primary source of funding for the federal government from 1870 to 1915.
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