USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Volsted Act was passed to enforce the 18th Amendment’s restrictions on drinking. This ban led to the rise of speakeasy bars set up illegally to serve alcohol and these were often called prohibition speakeasies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though the advocates of prohibition had argued that banning sales of alcohol would reduce criminal activity, it in fact directly contributed to the rise of organized crime. After the Eighteenth Amendment went into force, bootlegging, or the illegal distillation and sale of alcoholic beverages, became widespread.

Detailed explanation-3: -Constitutional prohibition in the U.S. took place from 1920 to 1933 and was enacted ostensibly as a response to pre-existing social issues like domestic violence and child abandonment whose presumed cause was alcohol.