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Prohibition was a period of nearly fourteen years of U.S. history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. Prohibition was a time characterized by speakeasies, glamour, and gangsters and a period of time in which even the average citizen broke the law. After the American Revolution, drinking was on the rise. To combat this, a number of societies were organized as part of a new Temperance movement against alcohol. Prohibition was largely promoted by members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. During prohibition there were actually more illegal places to get alcohol than before prohibition. Gangsters like Al Capone would sell alcohol illegally to people. In 1927 there were 30,000 speakeasies, twice the number of legal bars before prohibition. It was almost impossible to force people not to drink .