A Brief History of Prohibition

[@SirCheezersIII]

Here’s a little story time of my own. My great grandmother was a first generation Irish-German-American living in Chicago during Prohibition. She was a professional cook who worked every now and again for different small-time restaurants in the Westside. While she originally cooked German food, she also dabbled in other cuisines as well. One day a man walked into the restaurant she was working at at the time and ordered beef roast, my great grandmother’s favorite dish. He liked it so much that he wanted to offer his compliments to her face to face, and when she came to his table he offered her a decent chunk of money to become his personal cook. She politely declined, and the two of them never met again. The man was Al Capone. Makes me wish I was better at cooking.

[@sunkist1309]

God damn that’s insane! I live in Kansas and my family have been here since 1878. My fathers side of the family has always been the “let’s get drunk and have fun with each other” while my other side of the family is more of a “let’s sit around and talk after church” type of family. Any ways a few months ago My dads telling me about our grandpa who as it turns out. Was one of if not the first American to be arrested under prohibition. This is because in my moms town, the town actually passed a law that prohibited alcohol. A few years before federal prohibition! And when they released him he asked for his bottle of whisky back 😹.

[@MrDemonWorm]

If she wasn't a gossip, it would've been a sweet gig.

[@emmgeevideo]

Hey Mr. Beat, as a Kansan I think you'll like this story. I went to KU in the early 1970s. At that time, the drinking age for "3-2" beer was 18. So my college days were well-lubricated. You had to be 21 to buy "strong" beer. I didn't care. 3-2 beer, consumed in sufficient quantity was fine for achieving the state of consciousness that we college kids were aiming to achieve. In those days there were no bars that sold liquor. Kansas had a law that prohibited "open saloons". However, "private clubs" were legal. A true private club was one where you brought your own bottle of liquor and they put it on the shelf for when you came to visit. The private clubs made money selling "setups", i.e., the mixes that would produce a cocktail from your liquor. My recollection is that liquor laws were set by the state but counties could create more restrictive rules. Douglas County, where Lawrence and KU were located, adhered to the state law. Franklin County, where nearby Ottawa was located, had more restrictive rules. I think they didn't allow 3-2 beer sales in watering holes like we had at KU. So as recently as the 1970s, vestiges of Prohibition were still around -- in your native state. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!

[@peanutlover5998]

I recently learned that Andrew Volstead was my great great grandfather’s cousin. I find this ironic considering my birthday is the same as al Capone

[@jlambuth]

I'll drink to that.

[@ericiav]

lmaoo

[@tonycapella1402]

That's not Ironic, that's coincidence.

[@Ravensnation94]

You have 16 great great grandparents

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Later: the war on drugs, explained.

[@jacobtylerbasile]

This is a great example of people holding personal morals above what benefits everyone as a whole. You could apply the same to so much.

[@johngreen3543]

I can agree with this, by adding, that the moralists are at it again on the abortion issue. They want the fetes of a woman to be the property of the federal government by coming up with an out and out ban of abortion. I support abortion in principle as a freedom woman have or should have with parts of their body.

[@watching7721]

Of course, because everyone believes their personal morals will benefit everyone as a whole

[@sominboy2757]

as a minnesotan, i apoligize for andrew volstead. he was born in a place about 50 miles from me

[@conc3rt5]

You somehow make something I've revised a thousand times sound new and fresh, thanks! Will subscribe

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks so much! :D

[@SiVlog1989]

Wonder if the attitude over drugs will follow a similar route to alcohol, specifically lifting bans and instead taxing the profits of those selling the drugs

[@sunkist1309]

My great grandpa father was one of if not the first Americans to be arrested under prohibition. In our home state of Kansas. A certain town. I honestly forgot the name of. Prohibited alcohol a year and some change before federal prohibition. Lucky for my grandpa everyone in the town knew him and through some friendly leniency they released him. And he even asked for his bottle of wisky back 😹

[@thebigbean8783]

Hm history is literally repeating itself a hundred years later. The forties are right around the corner. Really makes a fella wonder

[@siamiam]

its a good thing people dont drink as much now days as they did then O_O there are a few dry villages up here in my state, Marijuana is legal though

[@iammrbeat]

How is that whole marijuana legalization thing working out for you guys? Have you noticed any big changes?

[@siamiam]

+Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel fast food sales are up O_O other then that smokers are a lot more relaxed not because of the high but because they dont have to worry about it any more. economically it has seemed to improve things with many people i dont smoke pot , only thing i smoke are my tires :D

[@rino09876]

The thumbs down was from Carrie Nation.

[@KayleeCee]

There's no denying that Carrie Nation was a badass, but damn did she ever pick a stupid cause.

[@ericiav]

Thanks for saving my presentation man. Nice vid good photos and lots of information :)

[@lil_billiam69]

The area I grew up in, Patrick, Henry, and Franklin County VA was notorious for illegal moonshine. My buddy's old house used to be a bootlegger house. If you go in the basement you can see where they rigged the shower to make bootleg. Not to mention the amount of broken moonshine jars around the yard.

[@Tristin471]

I'm proud to be able to watch this video while drinking a beer lol

[@trillz31]

There's a village near me that was dry until recently when they lifted their alcohol ban.

[@kayzeaza]

Just like weed

[@yourmama3515]

Space Racer26 except weed doesn’t harm you in many ways and doesn’t give you an hangover day after.

[@Persona1996]

Space Racer26 And guns

[@kseshshtern9968]

Your Mama Alcohol is way worse than weed

[@shirtless6934]

Here is the problem: alcohol can be purchased in many drug stores. Should marijuana be sold in drug stores, where it will be more accessible to children? Call me square, but I believe there is a huge segment of the population that does not have least idea where to obtain marijuana.

[@hempleafcar1]

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[@johngreen3543]

My grandfather on my mothers side was a clandestine maker of a thick German style wine made out of Concord grapes. He had several rows of grape vines on the property guarded by a vicious dog. One day , I ventured into the vineyard area and the dog attacked me. He bit me in the neck in an area close to the Juglar vein and I was rushed to the hospital in time. My grand pa killed the dog and ever after bore a secret dislike for me. I found out when he died at 96. He wrote me out of his will. My father warned me about that years ago but I did not believe him. I think to this day that people should buy their own wine rather than make it themselves.

[@adanactnomew7085]

0:56 Of pure alcohol. If we use 12% wine it's about 300.

[@jlambuth]

The US Government: well, we discovered that prohibition doesn't work. Let's drop it. Also the US Government: hey, let's try prohibition with drugs and really kick it up a notch! Not like we will have repeat mistakes........

[@ania5038]

I wish I had learned about the good things like you mentioned that came out of prohibition and not just the bad.

[@raydavison4288]

Thanks for another great video.

[@Fernando-iy3fg]

The faliuer of prohibition should be a lesson to everyone that supports the war on drugs

[@MxCartney_Lou]

“Alcohol the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems!”- Homer Simpson

[@cpcva724]

We're there penalties for merely consuming alcohol in local areas?

[@krazykris9396]

It's almost hard to believe a freedom loving country like the US banned alcohol at one time.

[@RemixedVoice]

USA started the war on drugs and alcohol lol and every other country followed suit

[@sicsempertyrannisvi4107]

The real cause for prohibition was the mass manufacture of cheap whisky etc, lowering quality, and carried on by 'liquor trusts' There's no mention in this video about this.

[@jamellfoster6029]

Glad I didn't live back then... I'd be so depressed...

[@kevinhealey6540]

It was a bad idea. These are some of the reasons why they reversed it: (1) They couldn't do anything to stop it. It was unenforceable. (2) The wrong people were getting richer and richer from it. (3) Most of the people in prison were there because of bootlegging.(Press Read more) (4) Tax revenue from alcohol sales was being lost. There was one advantage that came from it. Crime was at a an all time low. Even today, 70% of the people in prison in today are there because of alcohol or drugs. It comes about from either direct or indirect contact.

[@paulwarren796]

THIS IS A PLEASANT AND AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE PRESENTATION OF A RATHER DIFFICULT SUBJECT MATTER . pww

[@MithrandilPlays]

The reason for mass alcohol consumption back in the day was because clean water was hard to come by, but alcohol was sterilized, and therefore clean, and safer to drink

[@johngreen3543]

The process of making alcoholic drinks can require a distillation or a fermentation process which kills off the bacteria present in unclean water used. One of Englands greatest medical investigators a Dr Snow found that a large number of cholera victims got their water from various free water outlets in London. But, those who worked at the local Beer factories did not catch the cholera. It was a massive statistical project, which turned out to be one of the greatest feats of the just emerging field of Statistics

[@daviddwhit3225]

This is how the Great Gagsby made his money.

[@Neox_lives_eternal]

0:54 oh that not so bad 0:57 OH GOD THATS TO MUCH 1:02 OH MY GOSH THAT TO MANY

[@johngreen3543]

At 4:35 you have a picture of the two most famous prohibition agents "Izzy and Mo" They made over 4,000 arrests

[@diresa22]

Dang it! After watching this video I'll enjoy my beer slowly.

[@lobecosc]

Great video.

[@rateeightx]

Personally I think we should bring back prohibition, On the grounds that speakeasies are cool and alcohol tastes better when it's illegal.

[@Mr.Turano]

I don't watch these in order, so, I can't tell if you started or stopped saying, the end, at the end. I feel they should have that at the end of these segments in the future. I watch some of the educational videos with my daughter, like crash course, so it's nice when videos have some humor to them, like what you are doing.

[@cpcva724]

It was safer to drink booze at the time because water in many places was filthy.

[@richardjohnson6628]

So, did the Churches defy Prohibition and still use Wine?

[@sydneyw4282]

You will never stop Americans from drinking. Ever.

[@pyromaniac8194]

The state of Utah STILL has prohibition laws

[@jerryeskridge4798]

Prohibition helped sports in the Southren U.S. many bootlegger called moonshiners making there trade in stills in the woods and country would develop supe up stock engine for car so they could out speed Sheriff and federal prohibition agent when making delivery . When not working moonshiner would race one another for fun this became the beginning of N.A.S.C.A.R.

[@shirtless6934]

Mr Beat, was it really necessary to amend the Constitution to establish Prohibition? Couldn't Congress prohibit it, as it does, say, marijuana? As I see it, the 18th Amendment forced Congress and the States to ban it.

[@ethanstokes439]

If no one is enforcing the law is it really a law

[@abanoubsameh6608]

same thing would happen with gun control, bad people will earn money and power while good people will not be able to defend themselves

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Yes, because good people were defending themselves with alcohol? This analogy is a little strained, though generally I agree that it could cause a cottage industry of black market manufacturers of things like 'high-capacity' magazines (things which are essentially spring-steel or plastic components that could be relatively easily made), there wouldn't be high enough demand to cause a great degree of legitimate "backyard gunsmithing" though. It's not that people would make firearms or ammunition, but rather there are more than enough guns already in circulation in the country to supply a black market for decades to come and since it would be handled illegally and off the books tracking these sales would be much more difficult - this is besides the point though since 'gun control' doesn't call for the wholesale banning of firearms anyway, just more common-sense regulations (like mentally ill people not being able to purchase firearms). That said, the comparison between prohibition and firearm ownership is a flawed one - more people drank then and drink now than will ever care about firearms. Even in the most gun-friendly country in the world.

[@sydneyw4282]

Sounds familiar.

[@controllerplayer2091]

Oversimplified stole this video 💀

[@hafizikmb]

In islam, we already outlaw alcohol for more than 1000 years ago.

[@hafizajiaziz8773]

A Malaysian, I believe

[@fu-fucuddlypoops6583]

“By 1870, Americans were drinking the equivalent of 35 bottles of wine a year.” Me in 2021: 👀

[@TimmyTheTinman]

Maybe the founding fathers were just drunk the whole time an didn't mean to start their own country but the result was the declarition of independence so when they finally got sober so they just decided to roll with it.

[@tomfrazier1103]

Epoch Times aught to print in the States.

[@angrypastabrewing]

Too bad we can’t distill our own alcohol without a license

[@adamw5803]

Did you not watch the video? People were dying because of improperly distilled homemade alcohol.

[@theyoungbloodgroup5106]

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[@backtothefutureman1]

I want prohibition to return.

[@backtothefutureman1]

@@user-hd2rr4io1q cause my mom drinks and can barely control herself.

[@jesurenbnb]

@@backtothefutureman1 and many people would you know do the same thing as before

[@backtothefutureman1]

@@jesurenbnb Not as much now as it was back then.

[@intranext1359]

In my opinion, one of the biggest reason prohibition failed is because it was not of the principals of Americans to not drink alcohol, unlike islam

[@food2430]

0:00

[@jamellfoster6029]

Similar to abortion before 49 years ago... Glad I live in modern times as I'm pro-choice & no woman should have to be subjected to undercover, unsafe abortions...

[@cristianvillanueva8782]

not gonna lie i greatly enjoy the content but the intro makes me cringe a bit.