Traffic fatalities related to alcohol were increasing. Currently in every state across the US, the drinking age is 21. Each state however, has the ability to increase or decrease the drinking age. In 1984, the federal government created the National Minimum Age Drinking Act to prevent alcohol related deaths from driving. The act involve taking 10% of the highway funding for each state that did not raise the drinking age to 21. To this day, each state raised its drinking age to 21 in order to obtain its highway fundings from the government.
