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PROHIBITION &

PROHIBITION &. THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT 18 TH Amendment. What was Prohibition ?. Prohibition: Banning Of Alcohol 18th Amendment: Prohibit Consumption/ Manufacture /Sale /Transportation of Alcohol Volstead Act: Enforced 18 th Amendment. Why Was Prohibition Introduced ?.

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PROHIBITION &

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  1. PROHIBITION& THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT 18TH Amendment

  2. What was Prohibition? • Prohibition: Banning Of Alcohol • 18th Amendment: Prohibit Consumption/ Manufacture /Sale /Transportation of Alcohol • Volstead Act: Enforced 18th Amendment

  3. 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

  4. “Drys & Wets” Argued p222 DRYS ARGUED BAN ALCOHOL • Improved individuals • Strengthened families • Created better Society • Stopped diseases

  5. WETS ARGUED Not To Ban Alcohol • Did not stop Americans drinking • Turned law abiding citizens into criminals • Created illegal networks • Violence • Corruption etc..

  6. In 1920: THINK What would You Have been? Wet Or Dry? For or Against Banning Alcohol? & WHY???

  7. LOOK- Is this Cartoon For or Against The Banning of Alcohol ? Why?

  8. LOOK- What is the message of this cartoon?

  9. What were the effects of Prohibition? 1. Speakeasies 2. Moonshine 3. Organised Crime 4. Political Corruption

  10. Speakeasies • Secret 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

  11. Moonshine • Spirit made secretly in home made stills • Several hundred people a year died from this during the 1920s • In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes

  12. ‘Bootleggers’ • Alcohol Smugglers: Made thousands of dollars making/selling alcohol • Famous Smuggler: William McCoy Made fortune by bringing alcohol from West Indies & Canada

  13. Organised Crime • Racketeers/ Gangsters:Owned illegal businesses Owned Speakeasies / Distilleries/ • Bribed: Police/ Judges / Politicians • Controlled areas in Cities

  14. 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

  15. BUGS MORANControlled North Side of Chicago Worth A $100 by the time he died

  16. ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE

  17. ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE AL-CAPONE V BUGGS MORAN Bootleg Rivalry Delivery: Warehouse 2122 N. Clark St. 7 Moran Men Waited Al Capone’s men arrived dressed as police Moran’s men all killed

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