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OUTLINE David Weiner I. On January 16, 1920 the Volstead Act became a law, the next thirteen years would be forever know as Prohibition. II. James Timberlake looked at the different aspects of society that intemperance affected, and how each contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. A. Prohibition was closely linked to the Progressive Movement, which was a reaction to a long period of dominant conservatism. B. American Protestants were committed to temperance reformation based …

…Behr focused on people, not only how they were affected by the Eighteenth Amendment, but also how they reacted. A. Immigrants were some of Prohibition’s first victims. B. While some looked for loopholes in the Volstead Act, others became smugglers. C. Prohibition literally invented the gangster, and helped fuel organized crime. V. Prohibition not only changed drinking habits in the United States, it also changed the way that Americans regarded defenders of the law.