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http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/volstead_act/images/detroit_police.gif. Prohibition. “The Noble Experiment”. http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/FunFacts/Prohibition.html. Groups that Supported the Movement. Anti-Saloon League Women's Christian Temperance Union

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  1. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/volstead_act/images/detroit_police.gifhttp://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/volstead_act/images/detroit_police.gif

  2. Prohibition “The Noble Experiment” http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/FunFacts/Prohibition.html

  3. Groups that Supported the Movement • Anti-Saloon League • Women's Christian Temperance Union • Various women and factory owners • Progressive reformers

  4. 18th Amendment “After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.”

  5. Billy Sunday • "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent."

  6. Prohibition • The 18th Amendment - ratified in 1919 • Some evidence showed: • bank savings increased • fewer absences in some industries • fewer arrests for drunkeness • Various groups used this as proof that this “Noble Experiment” (Hoover) was working

  7. At the Same Time . . . • New Terms Emerged • Speakeasies • Home brew • Bathtub gin • Alky cooking • What do these terms mean? • What do they tell us about what was going on at this time?

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