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** __Eighteenth Amendment__  **
** Written by: John, Yuka, and Christina   **
 *    Essential Question: What prompted the creation of the amendment?

A: The amendment was created to lower crime and to lower taxes and improve health. Even though they ratified the amendment most people tended to ignore it and illegally drink. People began to brew their own alcohol or smuggled it in from Mexico and Canada. Though you were supposed to be sent to jail no one enforced the law. Since the law wasn't followed thet later repealed it with the 21 amendment.

Section 1: One year after the ratification manufacture transport and sale of alcohol will be illegal. Section 2: Congress and the states have the power to enforce the amendment.

Section 3: If not ratified within 7 years the amendment would not be valid.

Q: When was the eighteenth amendment ratified? ** **    A: The eighteenth amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919.

Q: What was happening in the United States during the 1910s? **    ** A: **** The 18th Amendment **** was created to reduce crime, reduce corruption, improve health, solve social problems, and reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses. **      **     Q: Did people not follow the amendment? ** **     A: People stopped following the amendment because they soon realized that it was not such a good idea. Additionally people realized that they could get away with breaking the law. **

**    Q: Why did they cancel the amendment? ** **     A: The amendment was repealed because instead of reducing crime and drinking, more people drank and it created more crime. **

**    Q: What was the punishment for not following the law? ** **     A: The punishment for breaking the law was jail time. However, the law was not it was not enforced and there were hundreds of "Speakeasies", places where people could drink illegally, in every city. **

**Q: How did the amendment affect people? ** **    A  : The amendment prevented the legal sale of alcohol. It caused people to drink at illegal bars called "Speakeasies" and by beer and alcohol from bootleggers. **

**    Q: How long did it take for the amendment to ratified? **   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> ** A: The **** US **** Senate only debated a few hours before approving the amendment. The House of Representatives also only debated a few hours before they also voted to approve it. It then took a total of two years for three fourths of the states to ratify the amendment in 1919. **

**   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Q: How come law enforcement officials were unprepared for the smuggling and illegal drinking? ** **    <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> A: Law enforcement was unprepared for the smuggling and illegal drinking because they did not realize how many people would end up disobeying the law. They also underestimated the things that people would do to break the law. **

**   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Q: Did they find ways around the amendment? **   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> ** A: People found ways around the 18th amendment by creating their own wine and cider or by smuggling alcohol in from **** Canada **** or **** Mexico ****. **

**   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> Q: When was it repealed? ** **    <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> A: The amendment was repealed in 1933 when the 21st amendment was ratified. An amendment to the Constitution can only be repealed by another amendment to the Constitution. **

Current Events

John: [|Odd Alcohol Laws Keep the Party Spirit, Within Limits Of Course] Authur:Anonymous
 * When prohibition was repealed in 1933, the federal government left the job of regulating alcohol to the individual states. All the states have laws against the sale of alcohol to persons under the age of 21. Many have laws restricting the sale of alcohol on Sundays. There are however, some strange laws that have been created through the years. For example, in Massachusetts you cannot bring alcohol to a person in the hospital. It is a crime in Pennsylvania to be drunk in public. The strangest is from Alaska and Massachusetts, you cannot buy alcohol on Election Day to celebrate a political victory without government approval.**

From [|www.foxnews.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">**Sources:** [|**http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/p/prohibition.htm**] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|**http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html**]

<span style="color: #0500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Alcohol marketing sccrutinized ** <span style="color: #0500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> My news is about how teenagers in the U.S are able to buy and order alcoholic beverages. Teenager would just go to the market and buy a six packed thin of beer and liquor. Teens didnt even have to show there ID., which is insane. Then they started to order liquor, beer, etc.Since the online marketing of alcohol got so famous to teens that they amended a new law. They suggested to make a law that it is illegal to buy alcoholic bevereages on line. Now people are not able anymore to buy beer and other alcohol on line any more.(http://news.cnet.com/alcohol-marketing-scrutinized/2100-1023_3-2...)**
 * Christina:
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