Amendment+21

= Twenty- first Amendment = = Essential Question 1#: What issues prompted the creation of your amendment? = = Essential Question2#:What impact did your amendment have on society at that time? =

Q. Did the previous ban of alcohol have anything to do with people committing crimes and being abusive?
== A. Religious activist and other groups thought that the drinking large amounts of alcohol was directly linked to people committing crimes and being abusive. Also when people became abusive to their families it often led to broken homes.This was one of the reasons the temperance movement was put into place which started a protest against alcoholic beverages. ==

Q. How was the original ban of alcohol enforced?
== A.The first legal ban was enforced by congress setting up something called the volstead act which said that products could only contain a certain amount of alcohol and a very small amount could be made and put into medicines and other things .Activists against alcohol were still trying to get rid of it before the ban was put on by taking taxes and other weapons and going into bars and stores that sold alcohol and smashed all the bottles. ==

Q. How did people feel and react to the twenty first amendment being created?
== A. A tons of people loved this amendment.this was because now people no longer had to smuggle alcohol in secrecy but they could buy it very easily.also there was less of a risk of getting sick because now that liquor would actually be made properly and by mainly professionals.furthermore it would greatly help the economy earning more money when they tax alcohol and business would make tons of more money just due to the sale of alcohol. ==

Q. Did religion play a part in the previous ban on alcohol?
== A.Religious groups believed alcohol had no positive effects on society and was the direct reason for violence and crimes. There were many groups which lead to the temperance movement and then the ban of alcohol. Most of the groups consisted of women and children there were some but few men some of them were Women's Christian temperance union and the anti-salon league. ==

Q. Did all the states accept and agree to the amendment right away?
== A.When the ban was originally put on liquor many states refused to enforce the ban .Maryland was a state that never even bothered to enforce the ban and new York didn't accept it etheir.Once the ban was taken off 36 of the states soon brought back alcohol by December of 1933 only nine months after it was approved by congress and by 1966 the last state Ohio finally reintroduced alcohol after the boycott.Although their still are some laws today in certain states and areas where the sale of alcohol is illegal or you are not able to purchase it. ==

Q. What is the twenty first amendment?
== A.the twenty first amendment basically repealed the eighteenth amendment which basically means it is going against the eighteenth amendment and saying that people no longer need to follow it.the eighteenth amendment was the prohibition of alcohol and banned it from being transported produced or sold in the USA although it never did ban drinking the liquor itself. ==

Q. Did the great depression affect this amendment being put in place?
== A. Since their had previously been a ban on selling, making and transportation of liqor ,during the Great Depression americans were spending more money on illegal acohol than anything else. Since people were spending so much money on alcohol president Franklin D Roosevelt and others of the congress agreed that America needed money and by bringing back alcohol they could put tax on it which would greatly help the US economy after fighting in World War l. ==

Q. How did the ban being taken off alcohol effect the U.S.A's economy?
== A. After the ban on alcohol was taken off it took a little while but the economy eventually became better .The government could now tax alcohol beverages which gave them money. many people got jobs because buissnes and restaurants who mainly relied on selling alcohol reopened. ==

Q. How taking the ban of alcohol affect citizens health?
== A. When there was a ban on alcohol citizens died from drinking tainted liquor which was illegal alcohol that people made and sold.sometimes this liquor could contain toxic chemicals from being made wrong and could strike people blind or poisin them this killed 10000 people before the 18 amendment was put into place.once there was a ban people still got sick from drinking this alcohol but once the ban was taken off in the 21 amwndement there was no longer a need to smuggle alcohol illegally sold less people got sick from it. ==

Q. Even though there was a boycott on alcohol did people ilegally smuggle it ?
== A. People all over the country illegally smuggled acohol and manged to sell it to the people.Drug stores kept selling alchol desgising it as medicine and if you had a physisits you could get a "prescription" which was actually just alcohol but people made it look very real like putting labels on it like take three ounces every hour.People also illegally sold and made alcohol in their own homes called moonshine and sometimes had secret ways of communicating like hand signs or a special knocks to be able to purchases the alcohol ==

Essential Questions
== Essential Question #1: There were many issues that prompted the creation of this amendment.One of these issues was people were getting sick from drinking black market alcohol that was made incorrectly Which could contain toxic chemicals and by the time the 21 amendment was created over 1000 people died from drinking this poisonous kind of liquor.also during this time period America was going through one of there worst years of the great depression and Americas economy wasn't doing to well and many people became unemployed lost their money and businesses and the government wasn't doing to great ether and needed money.Furthermore Americans were spending more money on bootlegged alcohol than anything else so none of the money they were paying for this alcohol was going to the goverment.in addition restaurants and stores also began going out of business because they made mostnof there money off the sale of alcohol. Plus gangsters like Al Capone made big money illegally selling the liquor all over the country. ==

== Essential question#2: t he effect the twenty first amendment had on society at that time was it improved the econmy.since the government sold alcohol they could put tax on it and that was a good source of money for them which contributed to getting America out of the great depression.although people were much happier now that they were allowed to buy alcohol without such a hassle and illegal operations selling alcohol eventually stopped going on reducing crime and violence.many restaurants and saloons went back into business which employed more people.So overall taking the ban off of alcohol really wasn't such a bad thing even if people ocassionlly drank a bit to much .although not all the states accepted the amendment right away so it took a bit of time. ==

Current event 2 The recent restrictions on medic marijuana in the state of Montana have caused some controversy. The Supreme Court ruled that people who deal and distribute, medical marijuana to the public are now restricted to only three patients. This is going to greatly affect all the users of medical marijuana considering in the last years its usage has gone greatly up in number from about 2008-2010 numbers have sky rocketed from about 1000 to well over 25000 people who use medical marijuana. Even though marijuana is typical looked at from a negative point of view it is actually extremely helpful to people and certain medical conditions it essentially numbs the pain and is used from all different types of disorders Crohn’s disease to seizure disorders. Without this treatment of using the medical marijuana patients will be forced to switch their medical treatments and find new alternatives that may not be as effective. Just like the twenty first and eighteenth amendment the government is once again trying to restrict something from people or even possibly an tithe only difference from this and alcohol is people are actually using this to help them live and survive and by taking it away people can become very sick or ill. Especially since so many people use medical marijuana is the government bans it people are obviously going to rebel because this is something that is helping keeping them or their loved ones alive and without it, it could lead t9 death. With an even bigger reason to need this product taking it away is just going to make people unhappy and give them a good reason to rebel send get it illegally.

Current event In the twenty first amendment it states that the 18 amendment which was the ban of alcohol was repealed therefore Americans could now drink alcohol freely with no restrictions or ban. In today's society adults over 21 are allowed to drink alcohol but another issue has arose recently in today's society that has some similarities of the ban of alcohol and its repeal. In America smoking has always been very popular despite its harmful and deadly effects on people’s health. In recent years e cigarettes and vaporized cigarettes have become popular among American citizens especially teens even though the amount of teens that smoke regular cigarettes has drooped down. As of Thursday the FDA has decided that the laws on electric cigarettes will be just as strict as the laws and sale of regular cigarettes a main point being that children will no longer be able to purchase or be sold electronic cigarettes .e-cigarette use among high school students rose from 1.5% in 2011 to 16% in 2015. that increase of cigarette usage is extremely dangerous because even though many believe using e cigarettes is better than traditional smoking the 9nvention of e cigarettes was to help people stop smoking not encourage kids to start vaping and gradually move into regular cigarettes. the electronic cigars drawn in children because they feature flavors like cookies and cream, gummy bears and a wide variety of other flavors that you could probably find in an ice cream store which draws teens in to buy the product. The restrictions of the FDA say e-cigarette on the market every different flavor and nicotine level will require a separate application for federal approval. Although their aren't as many restrictions in the e cigarette that have different flavors which are the ones that rea draw kids in and get them hooked onto the harmful product. Smoking any type of cigarettes is gad for your health but local isn't to great for your heath ether.by putting that ban on alcohol it only made people want the substance more and want to do whatever it took to get it .If we ban cigarette or even restrict them to a certain extent there is a good chance people will rebel like they did with the ban of alcohol and it will make a bigger mess in this F what we already have .therefor banning cigarettes in my opinion is a bad idea no matter how bad they are because if a person really wants some5hing they will find a way to get it regardless of what anyone else says.


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