In the United States alcohol consumption is accepted as a common part of American life. Alcohol is consumed at sporting events, restaurants, and even church gatherings. However, less than a hundred years ago, the prohibition movement was one of the greatest conflicts of the turn of the century. The demand for liquor was in high demand and Alphonse Capone was the man with the solution. In the early 20th century, many states began making alcohol consumption illegal, and on January 6, 1919, the United States government added the Eighteenth Amendment to the law. Our Constitution prohibits the sale and consumption of alcohol. The amendment formally called "The Prohibition" reads as follows: Section 1 After one year after the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, or the importation or exportation thereof of, the United States and all territory under its jurisdiction is prohibited for beverage purposes. Section 2 The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (The Eighteenth Amendment) Section 3 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided by the Constitution, within seven years from the date of its presentation to the States by the congress. Prohibition officially banned liquor in America. The reasoning behind the ban amendment was to decrease illegal and criminal activities and to make the country more ethical. When the states, Congress and the President passed the amendment, they had the same view as the Anti-Saloon League, which… halfway through the document… s. On October 18, 1931, Capone was found guilty of tax evasion. (Kings 65-66) Capone was sent to federal prison in Atlanta, the toughest in the nation. In 1934, Al became one of the first prisoners to enter Alcatraz, a rocky island in San Francisco Bay. Capone had enjoyed being a star prisoner, but things were different at Alcatraz. You had no privileges and only family members could visit you. (Kings 66)About halfway through Al's sentence, doctors discovered that he was suffering from an advanced stage of syphilis, a serious and destructive disease. After spending 6 months in the prison hospital, Capone was released on November 16, 1939. (Kings 67-69)On January 21, 1947, Alphonse Capone suffered a stroke (a rupture or clot in an artery in the brain). Capone took his last breath a couple of days later, just after his forty-eighth birthday 68)