<span>British Prime Minister William Pitt</span>
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The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol. Shortly after the amendment was ratified, Congress passed the Volstead Act to provide for the federal enforcement of Prohibition. Perhaps the most troubling effect anti-alcohol laws had in the United States was the growth of organized crime. Though organized criminal gangs had already begun to gain power through prostitution and gambling, the 18th amendment made it possible for those gangs to make even more money.
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
During the 1800 there was a big economic boom in the northern states. However, the south also had cotton as a leading cash crop during the 1800s.
