18th Amendment

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

The 18th Amendment has to deal with prohibition on liquor. This amendment was overturned due to drinker finding different ways to drink, especially underground, saloons or night clubs. These saloons and night clubs ran by gangsters such as Al Capone and Joseph P. Kennedy, father's of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Joe Kennedy made a fortune by illegally selling liquor underground.



The government decided to ban alcohol by passing the 18th Amendment due to high crime rates. For the most part, it was women that pushed for this amendment. However, by prohibiting alcohol, people will break the law and will do anything to find a way to drink booze. Crime rate started increasing even higher than before. Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Al Capone were two of the most well known for dealing liquor underground and on the Black Market.



Some of us don't know that Al Capone actually has a nice side than what we normally depicted him as a gangster. Since a few of his members died from drinking milk that they didn't realize that it was expired. Since that happened, Al Capone was the one who suggested the idea to put the expiration date on milk bottles. Despite all of the crimes he committed, he also gave job to people.