Prohibition_And_The_Rise_Of_Al_Capone

Prohibition And The Rise Of Al Capone The 1920’s and 30’s proved to be a tumultuous time in American history, due in part to the ‘National Prohibition Act’. The Act attempted to cease alcohol sales and consumption nation wide. The National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, was dubbed a ‘noble experiment’. The Act that was initiated with such honorable intent was widely regarded as a failure and gave rise to a world of organized crime that changed the face of America. The immense failure of the Prohibition Act coupled with the rise of organized crime in America at the time, has resulted in the 1920’s and 30’s being remembered as dark spot in American history. The National Prohibition Act was initiated in 1920 and remained in effect until 1933. The Act was supposed to reduce crime and corruption levels, solve social problems, reduce tax burdens created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. The excitement of the proposed Act is exemplified the speech given by Reverend Billy Sunday that predicted ‘the reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouse act, crime, prohibition, soon, rise, organized, american, america, alcohol, wide, view, time, reduce, problems, prisons, period, national, nation, initiated, history, failure, capone, 30’s, 1920’s, ‘the, ‘scarface’, ‘noble, ‘national, youth, world, worked, women, widely, walk, volstead, vast