Prohibition Case AnalysisThe 18th Amendment, better known as the Volstead Act, which banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States, was signed into law in 1920. The groups that lobbied for this amendment for years on religious and moral grounds: the Anti Saloon League and the Woman's Temperance Union had their own agendas, but others also favored this amendment in due to the growing resentment towards the new immigrants who, at that time, inhabited America. White Protestants, entrenched for years in the country's power structure, viewed immigrants as a threat to their way of life. Irish Catholics and their large families were considered drunkards and poor. The German people were viewed with suspicion because America had just fought them in World War I and Eastern Europeans who had a significant Jewish population couldn't be trusted were all people who didn't fit to what they considered to be the profile of Americans. For social or religious reasons, new immigrants used in their home countries and enjoyed bringing these traditions with them to enjoy in America. These new immigrants were looked down upon and what was the best way to control them by forbidding them from something that might please them. So the people who made up the Temperance movement sought to ban alcohol in the United States. The only thing the Volstead Act did by making alcohol illegal was create a new criminal element in cities across America. Instead of reducing... middle of paper ... criminals considered if the law did not apply it. She also saw how people drank more and how women drank socially with men in speakeasies and this was a result of prohibition. Cashman pg.160Work CitedEnglish, TJ Paddy Whacked, New York, Harper Collins. 2005. PrintCashman, Sean Denis, Prohibition, The Lay of the Land. New York Macmillian Publishing Co. 1981. Print.Okrent, Daniel, Last Call, the Rise and Fall of prohibiton, New York, Simon and Schuster Inc. 2010 Boyer, Paul S. Editor, The Oxford Guide to United States History, New York Oxford University Press, 2001. Pilisuk, Mark. “[CN]Chapter 5: [CN] Power Networks.” Who Benefits from Global Violence and War: Uncovering a Destructive System. With Jennifer Achord Rountree. Westport: Praeger Security International, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. Print.