Americans have a long history of getting mad as hell about something and deciding they won’t tolerate it any more.

Eventually, at any rate. British colonists complained about paying taxes to Great Britain even though they had no representation in the country’s parliament a full decade before the first shot was fired in what would become the American revolution. Prohibition held sway for 13 years before an economic downturn combined with organized crime’s control of the liquor market ended a constitutional ban on the production and sale of spirits in 1933.