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=__**21W7**__= =__**The Twenty-First Amendment**__= =**Essential Questions**=

1. What issues prompted the creation of your amendment?
In the 1800s the 18th amendment was created. It was created because religious groups were just using alcohol for drunkenness, and other people were selling it and trading it illegally which was the temperance movement. So this amendment prohibited the use, possession, and selling of alcohol. People were not very happy with this amendment at all. There were people protesting on the streets saying things like "no beer no work", and shouting they they wanted beer and alcohol back. This action prompted the idea to make a 21st amendment So because of all this disagreement and protesting the congress decided that they needed to make their people happy and come up with a solution. So they came up with the 21st amendment. 36 states ended up ratifying this new amendment. This amendment now allowed the use, possession, and selling of alcohol again. Not only that but it now allowed people to come up with their own rules or laws for it so that they were in control of their alcohol. And now every one was happy. [|Read more HERE] (Gina)

2. What impact did your amendment have on society at that time?
The 21st amendment did have an impact on society. This was because the entire idea of prohibition was a failure. This had made things like bootleggers, speakeasies, and organized crime rise a lot, due to apparently how much the people of the US loved their alcohol. So after the 21st amendment was ratified, people were very happy with this. Thoughnce movement began when, after this, the states were given the right to have their own laws on alcohol and the right to maintain it. Read more HERE (Megan)

=The 21st Amendment= A remaking of the 18th amendment now, except no allowing the use, delivery, possession, and selling of alcohol.

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**__Answer:__** The negative effects that this amendment have on society are that now that people are allowed the use of alcohol again more injuries are bound to happen. This is because lots of adults during that time drank alcohol just to get drunk. And if they are using alcohol for this use than it can become unsafe for that person and the people surrounding them. ====== [|Read more HERE] (Gina)


 * 2. Do you think this amendment will really help society?**
 * __Answer:__** I do think this amendment will help society, I als o think that it will not help society. I think that this amendment will help because selling alcohol and making it will allow more people to make more money by selling it. I don't think that this amendment will help because they are always telling people to use alcohol wisely yet they don't really do that and it causes many injuries and many deaths. Read more HERE (Gina)

__**Answer:**__ In the late 1800s there were prohibition movements lead by religious groups that considered the use of alcohol for use of drunkenness. This made the government decide that they needed to ban alcohol completely. Which made congress come up with the 18th amendment. But in 1820 during the temperance movement people started to sell alcohol illegally. Also people started to protest about the 18th ame ndment which also made the congress decide to make the 21st amendment. Which then made congress decide to make a 21st amendment. 36 states ratified this amendment which now allowed the use, possession, and the selling of alcohol legal. Read more HERE (Gina) [|Read more HERE] (Gina)
 * 3. What made society change the 18th amendment and make the 21st? **
 * 4. Do you think everyone agrees with this amendment?**
 * __Answer:__** No, I do not think that every one agrees with this law because some people are against alcohol and many people are not responsible with it either. Also many people use it to get drunk and police would be against that because it can get people very hurt. But I also think that a lot of people do agree with it because they enjoy it and it is nice to have some at dinner every night.

__** Answer: **__ I think that the government doesn't really care about this amendment. I also think that they might even agree with this amendment. I think this because I'm sure that they wanted alcohol just as much as the people did. Not only that but since the amendment was created their were no more people protesting. Because of that the streets were now quit and not filled with upset people. [|Read more HERE] (Gina)
 * 5. What does the government think about this amendment? **


 * 6. Did people protest about wanting to be able to have the use of alcohol again.**
 * __Answer:__** Yes, people did protest about wanting the use of alcohol again. For example, people would

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beer and alcohol. Also they were saying that they wouldn't work if they didn't have beer which would cause a lot of problems and work wouldn't be able to get done. Read more HERE (Gina) ======


 * 7. How did society react when this amendment was created? **
 * __Answer:__ ** When this amendment was created people were very happy. This is because they wanted to be able to have alcohol again. Also the congress has now satisfied their needs. For example, 36 states agreed to ratify the 21st amendment. Read more HERE (Gina)

[[image:http://bourbontheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/repealparty.jpg width="245" height="172" align="left" caption="A newspaper, after prohibition ended. "]]
[|Read more HERE] (Gina)
 * 8. Do you think this amendment was supposed to help or please society?**
 * __Answer:__** I think that this amendment was really just made to please society. I think this is because people protested about wanting alcohol back, also people said that they weren't going to work unless they could have beer again. So because of this they decided to come up with the 21st amendment.

__**Answer:**__ I do think that the government agrees with this amendment. Because I'm sure they all want to at least have a little bit of alcohol each ni ght at dinner. (Gina) [|Read more HERE]
 * 9. Do you think the government also agrees with the 21st amendment? Why? **

__**Answer:**__ After the 21st amendment was created, the streets became more quit because there were no more people protesting about alcohol. Also people were now more happy because they got what they wanted. Also things became more peaceful and back to normal.Not only that but people were now able to control what they can do with their alcohol. (Gina) [|Read more HERE] =**Works Cited**= @http://www.history.com/topics/18th-and-21st-amendments http://study.com/academy/lesson/prohibition-of-the-1920s-definition-18th-amendment-results.htmq=18th+amendment+protesting&rlz=1CASMAG_enUS622US623&espv=2&biw=1745&bih=881&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj05HFk77JAhUBUD4KHViKDnkQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=_6o3ejrbNizFJM%3A @http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/prohibition-ends
 * 10. What happened after the 21st amendment was created?**

Paragraph 1: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/make-marijuana-legal-11-05-2009/ The 21st amendment was made so that illegal alcohol and drugs are now legal. They made this because it was to hard to stop people from illegal alcohol and drugs. How ever marijuana is illegal, although many states including the western ones are now making it legal. The reason they are legalizing it again is because even though it was illegal too many people were selling it and making lots of money off of it. So there governments felt that because they were making so much money they should just make it legal again. This was because they would be able to tax it and make more tax money too. Another reason that they made it legal again is because it was hard to keep so many people from selling it and buying it. Even though it is legalized again they are still very strict about it. For example, it should not be handled by young people and you have to be a certain age to buy it.

Paragraph 2: My opinion about marijuana is that it should not be legalized. I think this because even though it’s hard to control that many people selling and buying it they could just make stricter rules about not selling it. I also think that it is bad because I think that it will just become out of hand and that people will be using it for wrong reason and using it the wrong way. I think that the 21st amendment is still very useful today. I think this because if we didn’t make this amendment than it would cause fights because people wouldn’t be able to have lot of types of alcohol and drugs and that would make them angry. Especially because many people make lots of money off of selling these things. In fact some people make a living off of selling these things. In conclusion, I think that the 21st amendment is a good amendment and that it is definitely fair, although I believe that marijuana should not be legal in any states.

By: Gina Fusco and Megan