prohibition

In 1920, the national policy of Prohibition began. Massachusetts ordered that no person shall remain in any tavern "longer than necessary occasions" in 1637, while Plymouth Colony in 1633 prohibited the sale of spirits "more than 2 pence worth to anyone but strangers just arrived" Excessive drinking, it was considered, produced behavior unseemly in some, such as ministers, and dangerous in others, such as Indians. The law was soon abandoned for many reasons . Soon it became clear that liquor laws could do more and perhaps better, than control consumption they could provide a source maturity. This prohibition was mainly for the couture struggle to preserve white old s...