How did prohibition conflict and change American society in the 1920s?

Prohibition was a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933. ... Prohibition led directly to the rise of organized crime. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in December 1933, repealed Prohibition.

The 1920s was a decade of change, when many Americans owned cars, radios, and telephones for the first time. The cars brought the need for good roads. The radio brought the world closer to home. ... In 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, creating the era of Prohibition.