Ken Burns: Prohibition - 'Episode 1 - A Nation of Drunkards'
British iTunes Chart Performance

• Release date: 02 Oct 2011
• Chart debut: #29 (10 Oct 2023)
• Highest Position: #29 (10 Oct 2023)
• Most recent chart position: #29 (10 Oct 2023)
• Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 2

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UK TV Episodes chart performance history for Episode 1 - A Nation of Drunkards

since the early years of the american republic alcohol has been embedded in the fabric of american culture but by 1830 the average american over 15 years old consumes nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year three times as...

...as we drink today alcohol abuse wreaks havoc on the lives of many families as a wave of spiritual fervor for reform sweeps the country many women and men begin to see alcohol as a scourge after the civil war the country’s population swells with immigrants who bring their drinking customs with them from ireland germany italy and other european countries the temperance campaign ignites spearheaded by the woman’s christian temperance union carrie nation and her home defenders army bring publicity by attacking kansas bars with stones and hatchets and the anti-saloon league asl forms to push for an amendment to the constitution outlawing alcohol nationally most politicians dare not defy the asl and in 1917 the 18th amendment sails through both houses of congress; it is ratified by the states in just 13 months when the amendment is signed into law prohibitionists rejoice that america has become officially dry but americans are about to discover that making prohibition the law of the land has been one thing; enforcing it will be another