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