What is the historical background of prohibition in America?

This is a cultural war driven by religious background, feminist movement and xenophobia, aiming at solving social problems such as high crime rate, domestic violence and immigration contradiction.

Driven by these factors, American public opinion circles have strongly advocated prohibition of alcohol for a long time. It is generally believed that prohibition of alcohol can promote social progress in the United States, so such a wonderful bill was born.

First of all, the powerful force of "prohibition" comes from American religious background-American Puritans. 1620, a cargo ship "Mayflower" with 102 passengers set off from Plymouth, England, for today's Massachusetts, USA.

Of these 65,438+002 passengers, quite a few were Puritans persecuted in Europe. The Mayflower Convention signed by these people on their journey became the blueprint for the future declaration of independence of the United States and the foundation of the United States, while the Puritan culture became the source of American culture.

Puritans, on the other hand, have their own rules and regulations, oppose extravagance and indulgence, and advocate thrift and patience. They think that alcohol is the "root of all evils", which is harmful to health, drunk and impulsive. These are all related to alcohol, so they have 10 thousand reasons to ban alcohol, and they are the most important force to promote the American prohibition act.

The far-reaching impact of the ban:

Although prohibition was abolished, its influence was far-reaching. To some extent, it has changed the political structure of the United States. From the perspective of related industries, the prohibition has the following effects.

1. Now the sale of alcohol in the United States is still very strict, and many States stipulate that alcohol should not be sold to teenagers.

In addition, the prohibition of alcohol leads to the lack of well-known liquor brands in the United States, which makes American wineries feel sad.

3. Alcoholic beverages have various innovations. For example, what cocktails, infidelity wine, various flavors, just like the style of tonic wine and medicinal wine during prohibition.

4. The cancellation of prohibition led to a cliff-like decline in the main illegal income of gangs. They had to turn to other black industries. Drugs have become an important black industry of gangs.

Bar, as an evening show, has become an important place for drug addicts, and this mode has spread all over the world.

Since then, many new drugs have started with alcoholic beverages. Or closely related to wine.

7. The proportion of drug addicts who smoke has increased.