ProhibitionIn the 1920s, the 18th Amendment prohibited a person's right to make and purchase liquor. Banning the transportation, manufacture, and sale of “intoxicating” drinks was known as prohibition, the most controversial law of that century. Prohibition was strongly supported by the government and the American women who were being abused. Important groups of the time were the “Dry's” and the “Wet's”. Opponents of Prohibition were men who felt they deserved the right to drink alcohol. Owners of saloons, beer houses, etc…, these people were called the “Wet's”. Prohibition lasted almost 14 years and ended on December 5, 1933; Prohibition didn't stop drinking: it just secretly hid it. It created ignorance and disrespect towards the law, so many people would ignore the law by drinking alcohol, making those citizens criminals. Prohibition was an extremely controversial topic and was very difficult to enforce. Taking away someone's right to drink alcohol is wrong, especially when it was legal long before Prohibition began. Taking alcohol from everyone puts people in a desperate position and pushes people to commit criminal acts. Other forms of alcohol were readily available throughout America and became a way of life for many men in the times of Prohibition. Prohibition created many problems including increased crime rates throughout the United States and gang violence. Abraham Lincoln once said, “Prohibition… goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetites by legislation and makes a crime what is not a crime.” Mafiosi gained wealth through the illegal sale of alcohol. The average American man earned $1,000 a year during the…paper period…in the 1920s he said, “There are two kinds of men in this town, those who sell liquor and those who buy liquor. “The America Foundation is based on the right to choose and the freedom of everyone. In the early 1900s it was very common for a man to come home and have a couple of drinks after a hard day at work. Drinking was mostly a man's thing and very few women did it. It wasn't until speakeasies that women began to drink like men. The biggest problem with Prohibition was that it took away the rights that Americans took for granted every day. Prohibition would seem more normal for a country run by a dictatorship, such as North and South Korea and Russia. Prohibition was a failed experiment at the expense of Americans and brought fortune to gangsters who sold alcohol illegally to men who could purchase it at the local establishment before Prohibition legally.