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Prohibition

What does Prohibition mean?

Alcohol is illegal to buy, sell, make, or consume.

Who lead the reform movement for prohibition of alcohol?

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

What messages about alcohol was this organization trying to

get across to the public?

Violence Abuse Crime

Productivity

Why did some cities bring in outside police officers to enforce prohibition?

Local police were bribed to turn the other way

(many drank themselves)

What is a bootlegger?

Someone who makes and sells illegal alcohol to

the public.

What were some consequences of homemade distilled alcohol?

Gut rot Blindness

Death

What is a Speakeasy or a Blind Pig?

An illegal bar

Outside: it would look like a funeral home or pet shop

Inside: hot jazz music, dancing, alcohol

What was a rumrunner?

Someone who illegally smuggled alcohol

across borders.

(Transporting rum from the Caribbean)

Canada’s big exports were whiskey & beer

What were some problems with prohibition?

*It was impossible to enforce. Police = bribes

People always found ways to acquire alcohol

*Quebec never agreed to the law.

Prohibition laws were first enforced in Canada, but went

away quickly in most provinces (by the mid-1920’s).

The government decided to

regulate the industry and profit from it through taxation.

The United States issued prohibition between 1920-1933.

This led to an increase in organized crime (i.e. the mob and gangsters).

Some Canadians made a fortune

smuggling alcohol to the U.S.