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In: Holder, H. Advances in Substance Abuse, Supp 1. Heath, D. The new temperance movement. Drugs and Soc, , 3, Blocker, J. American Temperance Movements. Of the states that already had bans on manufacturing and distributing alcohol, very few had sweeping successes as a result, but the 18th Amendment sought to remedy this.
On August 1, , the U. Senate passed a resolution detailing a version of the above three sections to be presented to states for ratification. The vote passed 65 to 20 with Republicans voting 29 in favor and 8 in opposition while the Democrats voted 36 to On December 17, , the U. House of Representatives voted in favor of a revised resolution to , with Republicans voting to 62 and Democrats voting to Additionally, four independents voted for and two against it. The Senate approved this revised version the next day with a vote of 47 to 8 where it then went on to the States for ratification.
The 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, , in Washington, D. Of the 48 states in the U. The National Prohibition Act was written to define the language and execution of the amendment and despite President Woodrow Wilson's attempt to veto the act, Congress and the Senate overrode his veto and set the start date for prohibition in the United States to January 17, , the earliest date allowed by the 18th Amendment.
At the time of its passage, the 18th Amendment was the culmination of well over a century of activity by members of the temperance movement —people who wanted the total abolishment of alcohol. In the midth century in the United States and elsewhere, the rejection of alcohol began as a religious movement, but it never gained traction: The revenue from the alcohol industry was phenomenal even then.
As the new century turned, however, so did the focus of the temperance leadership. Temperance became a platform of the Progressive Movement, a political and cultural movement that was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. The Progressives wanted to clean up slums, end child labor, enforce shorter working hours, improve working conditions for people in factories, and stop excessive drinking. Banning alcohol, they felt, would protect the family, aid personal success, and reduce or eliminate crime and poverty.
The leaders of the movement were in the Anti-Saloon League of America, who, allied with the Women's Christian Temperance Union mobilized the Protestant churches and obtained major funding from businessmen and the corporate elite. Their activities were instrumental in achieving the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to initiate what would become the 18th Amendment.
The original wording of the 18th amendment barred the manufacture, sale, transportation, and exportation of "intoxicating" beverages, but it didn't define what "intoxicating" meant. Many of the people who supported the 18th amendment believed that the real problem was saloons and that drinking was acceptable in "respectable settings. At first, people who wanted alcohol could get it semi-legally and safely.
But the Volstead Act, which was passed by Congress and then came into effect on January 16, , defined the "intoxicating" level at. The utilitarian arm of the temperance movement wanted to ban saloons and control alcohol production: People believed their own drinking was blameless, but it was bad for everyone else and the society at large. The Volstead Act made that untenable: If you wanted alcohol, you now had to get it illegally.
The Volstead Act also created the first Prohibition Unit, in which men and women were hired at the federal level to serve as prohibition agents. The result of the combined 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act was economic devastation in the liquor industry. In , there were wineries, in there were Liquor wholesalers were cut by 96 percent, and the number of legal retailers by 90 percent. Bans on liquor importation and exportation crippled American ocean liners who were competing with other countries.
Farmers lost the legal market of their crops to distilleries. It's not that the framers didn't realize that they would be losing the tax revenue they got from the alcohol industry not to mention job loss and raw material market loss : They simply believed after World War I that prosperity and economic growth would be adequately bolstered by the gains of the Progressive movement, including doing away with alcohol, to overcome any initial costs.
One main consequence of the 18th Amendment was the steep increase in smuggling and bootlegging —massive quantities of alcohol were smuggled out of Canada or made in small stills. There was no funding provided in the 18th Amendment for federal policing or prosecuting drink-related crimes.
Although the Volstead Act created the first federal Prohibition Units, it didn't really become effective at the national level until State courts became clogged with alcohol-related cases. When voters recognized that even "near beer" productions by the limping alcohol manufacturers Coors, Miller, and Anheuser Busch were now not legally accessible, tens of millions of people refused to obey the law.
Illegal operations to manufacture alcohol and speakeasies to distribute it were rife. Juries would often not convict bootleggers, who were seen as Robin Hood figures.
Despite the level of overall criminality, the mass violations by the public created lawlessness and a widespread disrespect for the law.
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