What caused prohibition?

Answer 1

The Prohibition has many causes.

In the early 1900's, doctors discovered that alcohol damaged mental and physical health.

Laborers grew increasingly unproductive as drunkenness rose to high levels since water and milk were generally distrusted due to uncleanliness and since coffee and tea were too expensive for the average family to purchase in large amounts. This left only alcohol as a drink of choice. As a result, the laborers were absent from their jobs more and more often.

Since most breweries were located in Germany, the government was convinced that the economy was suffering as people kept spending money on German alcohol.

Nationwide, churches were appalled at the drunkenness of the American population and counseled temperance or abstinence from alcohol.

Due to the levels of crime in the large cities of America, the government was under the opinion that alcohol and drunkenness bred crime and chaos.

After considering these many factors, Congress passed the 18th Amendment, which banned the production, transportation, possession, import, and export of alcohol in all forms, excluding those used for religious or medicinal purposes.

Answer 2

The women of the early 1900s didn't want their husbands spending all their money in the bar or on booze. <--- WRONG! The reason is that most of the Government wanted to "clear up" the heads of their workers....NOT because women of the 1900's were too obsessed about their husbands whereabouts.....You are both correctand it says that they did not want their husbands spending their money on alcohol not that they were concerned about their whereabouts. (which they were)

economically ; it was unsafe to have drunk men working in factories. The government also felt that sober soldiers would fight better than drunk ones (from an American view point)

alcohol was also causing men to day due to a disease caused by alcohol. Sclerosis.

and women were being beaten by their intoxicated husbands. this is MOST of the primary reasons. Do not be so quick to judge that an answer is incorrect !

Answer 3

bootlegging,organized crime,gangsters, and speakeasies

Answer 4

Rolled hose, rouged knees and cigars. . .Among other things.

Answer 5

too many people were drinking in America and too many were dieing.