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=18C6= = Eighteenth Amendment =

By: Sofia, Maria, And Mateo

//**Eighteenth Amendment Definition:**// The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. Upon ratification of the amendment by the states, Congress voted its approval in October 1919, and enacted it into law as the National Prohibition Act of 1920. //**Our definition:**// The United States banned the making, selling, and transporting of alcoholic drinks. Each state had the most power to enforce the amendment.



There are many problems with the eighteenth amendment. One problem was back then the president repealed the amendment because many people were getting drunk. They were causing problems by trying to sell any alcoholic drinks illegally. People would get seriously hurt from drinking. The 18th amendment was made because the many people back then were abusing alcohol, which caused some serious issues. Some include murders/ crimes, men leaving or not taking care of their families, men were not working properly at their jobs, and lastly the intake of alcohol was so much a lot of people got sick and died. Today there are still some of these issues, but not as major and there are consequences to them. An example is Drunk driving, alcohol overdose, and crimes caused from alcohol. A fine is given for drunk driving or an arrest occurs, alcohol overdoes may be treated but people can still die from it, and lastly people get arrested for the crimes they do. Lastly, this is how the issues that prompted the creation of the amendment compare with the issues applied today.
 * //__Essential Question: How do the issues which prompted the creation of the amendments compare with the issues they are applied to today? __//**

__10 Important Questions on the 18th Amendment....__

1. **//Q//__:__** Why was the eighteenth amendment canceled? //**A:**// The amendment was repealed in 1933 by ratification of the twenty-first amendment, the only instance in United States history that a constitutional amendment was repealed. in its entirety //Citation//: []

2. **//Q://** Why was the eighteenth amendment created? //**A:**// Prohibition was a movement started by Protestant congregations and women's groups who wished to eliminate the consumption of alcohol in the United States. By 1830, the American population consumed 7.1 gallons of alcohol per capita on an annual basis. The advocates of Prohibition felt that alcoholism was a problem in America that couldn't be cured unless enforcement was put in place by the government. //Citation:// [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amen][|dment_to_the_United_States_Constitution]

3. //**Q:**// Did all the states agree with the eighteenth amendment? //**A:**// No because the police, courts and prisons were overwhelmed with new cases; organized crime increased in power, and corruption extended among law enforcement officials. //Citation:// []

4. //**Q:**// Did American's still drink alcoholic beverages from other countries? **//A://** Yes and most were arrested and went to court. //Citation:// []

5. //**Q:**// Where did the idea of the creation come from? //Citation:// [|//http://www.albany.edu~wm731882/18th_amendment_final.htm//][|//l//]
 * //A://** The creation was by Congress and was proposed on December 18th, 1987. The House of Representatives and Senate had passed it a day earlier. Congress had approved to write a draft of the amendment in October 1919. They created this law for the National Prohibition Act of 1920. Andrew J. Volstead had to sponsor the bill.



6. **//Q://** Did everyone in the United States follow this Amendment? A: People in the U.S. would still sell wine illegally. People would bribe each other for go prices, but sometimes if people would get mad they would murder a person. People had health problems from drinking wine such as blindness, and hair loss. People that made moonshine tried to bribe cops, police chiefs, fire chiefs, mayors, and city commissioners. //Citation: [|http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/controversies/the-eighteenth-amendment.html#.VLXK1nl3McA]//

7. //**Q:**// What was the Amendment based from? //A:// The eighteenth amendment is based from alcoholic drinks. The state had repealed this amendment after many deaths in the U.S. The banned selling, making or transporting any alcoholic drinks. Each state had their own powers of this Amendment. //Citations:// [] [|http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/controversies/th][|e-eighteenth-amendment.html#.VLXK1nl3McA]

8. //**Q:**// What were the effects of the Amendment? //Citation//:[]
 * //A://** There were many effects from the 18th amendment. To start with, the intake of alcohol decreased by 30%, and the intake of hard alcohol went down 50% when the Amendment was enforced. Tons of people disobeyed the amendment, which ended in gigantic organized crime movements. There was also exhausted resources such as courts and prisons,and messed up officials that would take bribes to disagree with the law. As for economy, many business's were forced to shut down, due to the lack of licenses. Money that was used to fund large parts of some states from alcohol, was no longer available. The federal government had spent $300 million to enforce the Prohibition, while losing $11 billion in tax revenue. Lastly, the federal government had to depend on their own income taxes to seal their treasuries.

9. //**Q:**// What measures did it take the government to stop the use of alcohol? //Citation//:[]
 * A:** It was hard for the government to enforce the law, because alcohol was in high demand. The production of liquor started to widespread, and the government did not care to try to enforce every state and city of America.

10. **//Q://** Did any Americans disobey against the Amendment? Citation:[]
 * //A://** The answer is Yes. Right after the law of prohibition was made, several armed bandits emptied 2 freight trucks that contained whiskey. Another event occurred where a gang stole 4 casks of grain alcohol from a government warehouse, and stole a truck full of whiskey too.



//**__ CURRENT EVENTS: __**// __** Mateo's- **__ In Baltimore on December nineteenth 20014 Michel Phelps eighteen time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, pleaded guilty for drunk driving and alcohol addiction. He was arrested and sentenced to a year in prison, but the prison sentence was suspended. And he was put on probation for one and a half years. In court he told the judge “I now have the tools to move past this,” Phelps told the judge. “What I did was wrong, and I made a bad mistake. I’m looking forward to having a much brighter future than I had in the past.” The judge told him what would happen if he had another slip up. I wrote about this because this because it reflects on the eighteenth amendment. The eighteenth amendment made it illegal to drink alcohol. And what Michel Phelps did is an example of why the eighteenth amendment was made. I think that what Michel Phelps did was wrong and he should be punished.

Michel Phelps was arrested September 30 for speeding and crossing the double yellow line wile driving. The police said Phelps registered .14on the blood alcohol test and the legal limit is .8. The police also said his eyes were red shot and he seemed lost and disoriented. He was driving 84mph and the speed limit was 45mph. Phelps was taking to the station for processing. And was later dropped of home in Baltimore. This was not Phelps first time getting arrested for drunk driving. article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/sports/michael-phelps-pleads-guilty-admits-alcohol-problem.html?_r=1

__**Sofia's**__- Today our nation still has daily accidents and problems due to alcohol. Drunk driving continues to be a major cause for deaths in our nation. More or less "20% of high schoolers said they have ridden with a drunk driver". The rate of drunk driving continues on a decades-long decline. The number victims of drunk driving have lowered about 28% each person, involving the years 2005 through 2012. Approximately 10,322 were killed in alcohol connected accidents, in 2012. Major and minor fines are given out for drunk driving in the states of America. In the states of America, fines can be 50 times or more the amount of texting and driving. Lastly, drunk driving is a huge problem in our 50 states and it causes a lot of accidents when people abuse alcohol.

Both the article "Drunk vs. Distracted Driving in DC and the 50 States" and the 18th amendment are related. The article talks about drunk driving and the effects that happen from it every single year. The 18th amendment was made to stop people from drinking alochol because the daily intake was way more then it should be. Problems started occuring between familys, and more crimnes were commited. Therefore the goverment made the ammendemnt, so no more problems would occour because of alochol. The article shows how the ammendmewnt is still appilcable today. Alcohol is not banned in America but there are punshiments instead, when alcohol is abused. For example, if someone is caught drunk driving they will get pulled over and given a ticket or possibly going to jail. People can get arrested for selling alcohol without having a license or permit. Overall, Even though the 18th amendment got repealed, people of the united states can still get punishments for abusing the use of alcohol. //**Article**:// __ [] __

__** Maria's- **__ Most people are getting pulled over by cops from looking on your cellphone while driving drunk. Recently, the state of Maryland has came up with a brilliant idea funded by federal money for drunken driving education. This new cellphone app called "endui" helps figure out how high you are on alcohol. All you need to do is enter your gender, weight, height and you enter how many drinks you had, and what kind of wine or beer you drunk. One thing that is cool about this app is that it tells you your alcohol level percent.The app tells you if your intoxicated and you should pull over and get a cab. The Maryland highway safety association funded fifty thousand dollars for the app. States like New York, Mexico, Colorado, and California also have apps for this purpose. Their is different games on the app, for example one game you need to hit a brake and it tells you how fat or slow you should go so that you don't crash into another car or a person walking on the streets. Another game has to do with memory for example, it shows you different road signs with different colors flashing, in a crazy order you have to remember the order that gets harder, and harder every round. Most people are getting pulled over by cops from looking on your cellphone while driving drunk. This new cellphone app called "endui" helps figure out how high you are on alcohol. All you need to do is enter your gender, weight, height and you enter how many drinks you had, and what kind of wine or beer you drunk. One thing that is cool about this app is that it tells you your alcohol level percent. The app tells you if you’re intoxicated and you should pull over and get a cab. The Maryland highway safety association funded fifty thousand dollars for the app. States like New York, Mexico, Colorado, and California also have apps for this purpose. There are different games on the app, for example one game you need to hit a brake and it tells you how fast or slow you should go. Another game has to do with memory for example, it shows you different road signs with different colors flashing, in a crazy order you have to remember the order that gets harder, and harder every round. Tom Gianni says "Then it's meant to give you a lesson of, 'See what can happen. Imagine if you were behind the wheel.'". In some cases driving with any alcohol is illegal.

This article is relevant to today because many people still drink. The main reason the amendment was repealed is so nobody would drink anymore. Many people got really drunk and were either murdered or killed. This articles states that when many people would get pulled over, they would be intoxicated. The cops would make them use the app to identify what they drank, and how much they drank. Before the amendment got repealed cops would take the people to jail. After the amendment got repealed cops would pull people over and they would see that people were either intoxicated or had illegal alcohol. The people would offer the cops some. If the cops said no then the people would either try to kill the cops, or the cops would arrest the person. After they brought back the eighteenth ammendment, people would drink and still drive. Many people still continue to drink. It has gotten really bad. __ [] __

Click Here for Fun Facts on the 18th Amendment!

__**10 Intresting Facts on the Eighteenth Amendment**__: - Did you know that the ban of alcohol lasted for 13 years, 10 months and 19 days. - They repealed this amendment on December 5th, 1933. - The Eightteenth amendment is the only amendment that has been repealed. - The government poisned stocks, so it would paralyze people or make people die. - People who bootlegged make $60 million a year. - The twenty first amendment made the eighteenth amendment null. - With the Volstead act, congress had the power with alcohol. - Alcoholic sellers lost so much money, so they would protest to get the right to sell alcoholic drinks - Anti-Prohibition groups had gone to congress to ban alcohol - The twenty first amendment took over the eighteenth amendment in 1933.

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