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On the whole, the initial economic effects of Prohibition were largely negative. The closing of breweries, distilleries and saloons led to the elimination of thousands of jobs. -
A prominent effect of Prohibition was the nearly total destruction of the liquor market. The public believed that Prohibition would be permanent. -
Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages. -
he United States goes dry, shutting down the country's fifth-largest industry. October 1929: The Wall Street crash begins, ushering in the Great Depression. -
National Prohibition succeeded both in lowering consumption and in retaining political support until the onset of the Great Depression altered voters' priorities. -
It is estimated that up to 250,000 jobs were lost when Prohibition went into effect. -
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. -
American teen and adult was downing just under 2 gallons of alcohol a year on average. These days it's about 2.3 gallons, according to federal calculations. That works out to nearly 500 drinks, or about nine per week. -
Prohibition practically created organized crime in America. It provided members of small-time street gangs with the greatest opportunity ever — feeding the need of Americans coast to coast to drink beer, wine and hard liquor on the sly. -
a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue. -
Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.
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rain finally returned in significant amounts to many areas of the Great Plains, -
Due to low crop prices and high machinery costs, more submarginal lands were put into production. -
Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion -
Since our drought conditions are getting worse, another severe event like that isn't off the table. -
a series of severe dust storms swept across the mid-west states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas. The storms, years of drought, and the Great Depression devastated the lives of residents living in those Dust Bowl states. -
less than 25% of the original agricultural losses were recovered