another gang stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded warehouse, and still another hijacked a truck carrying whiskey. Americans were about to discover that making Prohibition the ...

"While religion played a big part in prohibition, so did the idea that alcohol was playing a major role in the breakdown of families in the early 20th century. While work was tough for factory and ...

Groups that wanted to keep the freedom to consume alcohol were known as ‘wets’. President Herbert Hoover called Prohibition "the Noble Experiment". Its supporters believed that problems in ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...