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Prohibition
During this time immigrant men were accused of being alcoholic and government officials thought that their bad drinking habits would infect their population -
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Prohibition Starts
The prohibition of alcohol passed as the 18th amendment -
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Tainted Liquor
During this time nearly 3000 Americans died every year from the tainted liquor bought from the black market -
Speakeasies
With the new addition of the 18th amendment there also came speakeasies where alcohol was smuggled across state lines -
WCTU
The driving force of the 18th amendment was the Women's Christian Temperance Union, teaching that a large percentage of people that drink died from edema -
Bootleggers
The people that ran the speakeasies were called bootleggers -
End of the 18th
FDR runs for president and easily wins with stating the 18th appeal. Shortly after he was elected the 18th was appealed in 1933. -
Legal Drinking Age
Most states didn't have any drinking laws that were enforced, after the repeal of the amendment though they made the law of being 21 years of age in order to drink -
Legal Drinking Age Updated
after the legal drinking age being 21 for awhile, a lot of states lowered their drinking ages to 18 -
Legal Drinking Age Updated Again
In the end the legal drinking age is changed to 21 because of drunk driving