History Of Prohibition: Core American Policy Decisions

Policy decisions are often evaluated based on their domestic impact. What was the problem, how did the policy attempt to relieve the problem, and did the policy accomplish its goal, are the most common questions asked when analyzing policy reform. The 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act, and the Jones Act were at the core American policy decisions. These three policies made production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal, and entered the United States into the prohibition era. Historians primarily study prohibition from a domestic viewpoint. What circumstances led to prohibition, what was the culture during the prohibition years, and why did prohibition ultimately get repealed, are among the multitude of domestic specific questions asked
by historians researching prohibition and the temperance movement. The slim research on prohibition in a global context is focused specifically on Great Britain and their colonies, especially Canada. This scholarly text accepts that American prohibition had an influence on a global and local scale. However, Great Britain, and its respective colonies, is not the only body impacted by the United States enactment of prohibition, various other countries on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific were affected by prohibition.