Analysis Of Ken Burns 'Roots Of Prohibition, A Nation Of Drunkards'

In Ken Burns’ Roots of Prohibition, A Nation of Drunkards shows how alcoholic beverages have been around America and how it caused trouble from the beginning. In the documentary by Ken Burn’s it states that even the Mayflower ship was filled with barrels of whiskey, rum, cider, and many more alcoholic drinks. Skipping ahead some years, Ken Burns’ Roots of Prohibition, A Nation of Drunkards, mentions that Abraham Lincoln sold whiskey by the barrel from the market. Also, African American slave, Frederick Douglas says, “Whiskey made me feel like a president, self-insured and independent.” In our twenty-first century, it is so average for teenagers to drink, but in Ken Burns’ Roots of Prohibition, A Nation of Drunkards, it states that the average
Crime rates and failure opportunities boomed. In Ken Burn’s documentary,