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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States. Introduction. Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933 History of stock car racing, moonshine, muscle cars

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Prohibition in the United States

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  1. Prohibition in the United States

  2. Introduction • Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933 • History of stock car racing, moonshine, muscle cars • Its original intention was to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America

  3. Eighteenth Amendment • The Eighteenth Amendment-established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States

  4. Organized crime • Demand for liquor continued • The law resulted in the criminalization of producers, suppliers, transporters and consumers. • The police, courts and prisons were overwhelmed with new cases; organized crime increased in power, and corruption extended among law enforcement officials. • The amendment was repealed in 1933 by ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, the only instance in United States history of repeal of a constitutional amendment.

  5. Bootleggers • Al Capone, one of the most infamous bootleggers of them all, was able to build his criminal empire largely on profits from illegal alcohol.

  6. Volstead Act

  7. Volstead Act • The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment

  8. purposes of the Act • To regulate the manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquor (but not consumption) • To ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye and other lawful industries and practices, such as religious rituals.

  9. Women's Christian Temperance Union

  10. Women's Christian Temperance Union • The first mass organization among women devoted to social reform  • The WCTU perceived alcoholism as a cause and consequence of larger social problems rather than as a personal weakness or failing.

  11. Membership growth

  12. Goals of the WCTU • Protect Families • Protect woman and children from the effects of abuse of alcohol

  13. Ways of Obtaining liquor

  14. smuggling • Many people kept private bars to serve their guests. Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from Canada, overland and via the Great Lakes. • ships outside the 3 mile limit were exempt from the government crackdown

  15. Prescriptions Whiskey could be obtained by prescription from medical doctors • doctors freely wrote prescriptions and drug-stores filled them without question • No attempt was made to stop this practice, so many people got their booze this way. Over a million gallons were consumed per year through freely given prescriptions.

  16. Old liquor • some people and institutions who had bought or made liquor prior to the passage of the 18th Amendment were able to continue to serve it throughout the prohibition period legally.

  17. Moonshine • Moonshine is any distilled spirit made in an unlicensed still.  • Poorly produced moonshine can be contaminated • Moon shiners trailer:

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