For decades prior to the Prohibition (i.e., the legal ban of alcoholic drinks) made possible by the Eighteen Amendment, different Christian churches and organizations had been objecting to the consumption of alcohol since they considered it as the source of most debauchery and moral decadence. Their goal was made clear to the federal government: alcohol should be completely banned in order to clean society up. An excise tax on alcohol would have been rejected by all the moralistic groups advocating for prohibition as a mild and ineffective measure
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Answer: Leaders agreed that a stronger national government was needed.
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The American economy immediately after the American Revolution had a lot of subsistence farmers with little access to hard currency and as a result could not pay off debts they owed. Veterans from the war were in debt as well as they were finding it difficult to get money they were owed by the government.
This led to widespread discontent that boiled over to the Shay's rebellion. As the dissidents marched on a Federal armoury, the Federal government could do nothing as they had very limited powers and could not fund their soldiers as a result.
When the rebellion was eventually put down by state militia, people saw the need for a stronger national government that could react to such problems and more should the need arise.
Losing in olympic games where the US dominates but still chokes
