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What a waste of booze! In the early twentieth centure there was a movement on prohibition. Prohibition is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. It was started by the government for religious reasons, some also thought it would reduce unemployment, poverty, and domestic violence. Prohibition had good intention, but it was a failure overall. Temperance was a social movement that was for prohibition and supported it. The mafia is a result of prohibition, there were more crimes and illegal distribution of alcohol. Also, moonshine was another dangerous result of prohibition, it was used to drink illegally and unsafely. "For pleasure, peace, and felicity, live in method and temperance." -Margaret Cavendish. Temperance was supportive to prohibition. Temperance is the social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. According to [|Wikipedia], economic change and urbanization were accompanied by increasing poverty, ordinances have relaxed and alcohol problems were increasing dramatically, which wasn't good. Dr. Benjamin Rush believed excessive use of alcohol was harmful to physical and mental health. For many reasons people just wanted to ban alcohol, which was a good but failed intention. "Prohibition created an atmosphere that allowed crimes, an atmosphere which the mafia exploited." -[|Wikipedia]. During the time of prohibition some of America's greatest criminals were born. Al Capone, Bugs Moran, Johnny Torrio, The Purple Gang, and etc. are the most famous. For the mafia, prohibition meant easy money, good times, and luxuries like new cars and new suits. The made their prohibition money by selling illegal alcohol. Less than a year after prohibition, over 900,000 cases of liquor were secretly being shipped to border cities. The mafia in the twentieth century during the prohibition time can be related to illegal drug distributors today that is going on everywhere by almost anyone. Prohibition is just a time for higher crimes and murders, the mafia helped a lot with that. "Well, between scothch and nothin', I suppose I'd take scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine i can find." -William Faulkner. Because alcohol was banned, people started making an illegally produced distilled beverage that was also used to create biofuel. Besides [|moonshine] it has also been called white lightning, mountain dew, and etc. It can commonly contain impurities and off flavors, which they usually flavored it with fruit or bark. It is made by using small-scale stills, it can be produced badly very easily and can contain toxins which could lead to blindness or even death. Because of prohibition moonshine was being made to have some sort of alcohol consumption, which was killing people since it was drinking unsafely. On conclusion, prohibition, as well as temperance, was just a big failure, it may have had good intentions but it really did a lot more bad than it did good. Prohibition led to more crimes and violence as well as deaths. The mafia just took advantage of prohibition causing so many more crimes. People were also drinking dangerously with moonshine which also led to more deaths. Prohibition was really just a huge trial and error.