Alcohol was drunk a lot in the USA in the 1920s in the 19th century 7 gallons of alcohol per year compared to the now 2 gallons of alcohol per yeah that's a lot 1 gallon is the same as a standard plastic milk container.
The women of the USA said that Alcohol is bad.
Most fathers and men drink alcohol daily.
And some women protested, a woman walked the streets and prayed, and at one point someone called the fire department to hose the women praying.
Some men gave up drinking and some saloons (a bar) owners closed down.
The woman formed the WCTU or the Woman Christian Temperance Union.
A woman named Carrie Nation brought an axe and a bag of stones and traveled town to town destroying saloons.
But the woman protested a bit too much and was disregarding their families (hey sounds familiar, that sounds like the husbands) and most of the men didn't know how to do housework and had to stop protesting.
Remember reading about the WCTU well there's a guy called Wayne Wheeler, instead of the woman trying to fix multiple problems he focused on one thing alcohol.
Also, the Anti-Saloon League (the one Wayne is doing) did propaganda.
When the Law that Alchohol went Iliegal most of the people faked their no drinking thing, but went to go get some illegal, but obviously there were some loopholes that the US citizens began to exploit.
Whiskey used for medical was allowed, so doctors became bartenders
Also, rabbis had wine to give as well so many people were becoming rabbis to give alcohol to other people.
No one was enforcing the alcohol law so... Is it a law, the bureau of prohibition had only had 15000 agents to cover the ENTIER COUNTRY
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