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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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The prohibition of alcohol passed as the 18th amendment
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During this time nearly 3000 Americans died every year from the tainted liquor bought from the black market
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With the new addition of the 18th amendment there also came speakeasies where alcohol was smuggled across state lines
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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
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The people that ran the speakeasies were called bootleggers
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FDR runs for president and easily wins with stating the 18th appeal. Shortly after he was elected the 18th was appealed in 1933.
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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
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after the legal drinking age being 21 for awhile, a lot of states lowered their drinking ages to 18
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In the end the legal drinking age is changed to 21 because of drunk driving