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PROHIBITION
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THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT18TH Amendment
What was Prohibition?Prohibition: Banning Of Alcohol
18th Amendment: Prohibit Consumption/ Manufacture /Sale /Transportation of Alcohol
Volstead Act: Enforced 18th Amendment
Why Was Prohibition Introduced?Moral Reasons: Alcohol Bad / Mostly Rural People Prior to 18th Amd. 75% of Americans lived in Dry Counties/Areas
2. Groups: Pushed Gov. to Ban Alcohol Temperance Reformers
3. WW I: Unpatriotic to Drink / Save Wheat for Troops
Drys & Wets Argued p222DRYS ARGUEDBAN ALCOHOL
Improved individuals Strengthened families Created better Society Stopped diseases
WETS ARGUEDNot To Ban Alcohol
Did not stop Americans drinking Turned law abiding citizens into criminalsCreated illegal networks Violence Corruption etc..
In 1920: THINKWhat would You Have been?
Wet Or Dry?For or Against Banning Alcohol? & WHY???
LOOK-Is this Cartoon For or Against The Banning of Alcohol ? Why?
LOOK-What is the message of this cartoon?
What were the effects of Prohibition?1. Speakeasies
2. Moonshine
3. Organised Crime
4. Political Corruption
SpeakeasiesSecret Saloon Bars
Sold Bootleg Alcohol
Before Prohibition there were 15,000 bars in New York. By 1926 there were 30,000 speakeasies!
Name: Green Mill Secret Password or knock at the door
MoonshineSpirit made secretly in home made stillsSeveral hundred people a year died from this during the 1920sIn 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes
BootleggersAlcohol Smugglers: Made thousands of dollars making/selling alcohol
Famous Smuggler: William McCoy Made fortune by bringing alcohol from West Indies & Canada
Organised CrimeRacketeers/ Gangsters: Owned illegal businesses Owned Speakeasies / Distilleries/
Bribed: Police/ Judges / Politicians
Controlled areas in Cities
Al Capone: Scar FaceControlled South-Side of Chicago By 1927; Earning $60 million a year from bootlegging
His gang was like a private army. He had 700 men under his control
Responsible for 500 murders
BUGS MORANControlled North Side of Chicago
Worth A $100 by the time he died
ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE
ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACREAL-CAPONE V BUGGS MORANBootleg Rivalry
Delivery: Warehouse 2122 N. Clark St.7 Moran Men WaitedAl Capones men arrived dressed as policeMorans men all killed