Speakeasy: Prohibition: Food The Roaring Twenties, from 1920 to 1929, was a decade of defiance. America's economy was high; people were rich from the bond business and new technologies sold quickly. People were happy, as characterized by the ambience of social levity. America's populace was, to some extent, out of control. By the 1918s, many advocates and religious individuals believed that alcohol was to blame for their corrupt society. Many believed alcohol was a "serious threat to …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 490 total…one of the most dramatic policy experiments in U.S. history, with implications for a broad range of economic, historical and political issues. Prohibition caused more violence on the streets than before prohibition. It was good that Americans went through Prohibition because it brought news food ideas to American society that is common consume until this day. The price to maintain prohibition was difficult for the government so the Twenty-First Amendment repealed the controversial act.