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The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
During American Prohibition, Scotch whisky was exported illegally to the United States. Like the end of the Civil War, the end of Prohibition also ended the fortunes of the Bahamas. [5] A considerable number of Bahamians can trace their ancestry back to Southerners who left America before and during the war. [6]
The American Civil War dealt the movement a crippling blow. Temperance groups in the South were then weaker than their Northern counterparts and did not pass any statewide prohibition laws, and the few prohibition laws in the North were repealed by the war's end.
Between 1920 and 1933, Prohibition affected Ashland in multiple ways
However, the issue of slavery, and then the Civil War, overshadowed the temperance movement until the 1870s. [52] Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1870s until the 1920s, when nationwide prohibition went into effect.
The temperance movement, which instigated Prohibition, led many to believe that alcohol was immoral and destructive to society. Those who were part of the movement hoped that a ban would help people to change their attitudes toward the substance. Evidently, the "noble experiment" of Prohibition in the United States did not have that effect. [18]
He joined the Union Army shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, eventually attaining the rank of brigadier general. He was wounded at the siege of Port Hudson and later captured. After being exchanged for another officer in 1864, Dow resigned from the military and devoted himself once more to prohibition.
Lexie Phillips, the assistant distiller at Jack Daniel's Distillery talks about how Prohibition affected the company.