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Road to Prohibition

Road to Prohibition. WCTU. Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874) Stood for women’s rights, child labor laws, worker’s rights, prohibition, etc. 1911= 250,000 members (largest women’s group in nation’s history). Carry Nation. Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carry Nation.

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Road to Prohibition

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  1. Road to Prohibition

  2. WCTU • Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874) • Stood for women’s rights, child labor laws, worker’s rights, prohibition, etc. • 1911= 250,000 members (largest women’s group in nation’s history)

  3. Carry Nation • Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carry Nation. • She would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet.

  4. Carry Nation • Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times, and paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets. • Changed her name to Carry A. Nation and referred to herself as “A Home Defender”.

  5. Anti-Saloon League • Founded in 1895 • Instead of focusing on individuals, the Anti-Saloon League took a legal stance against alcohol • 1900-1917= half of states were “dry” • “Dry”- illegal to sell, produce, or use alcohol

  6. 18th Amendment • Went into effect in January of 1920 • Prohibition= illegalized sale, production and transportation of liquor…use? • Initially, crime and drunkenness decreased • Volstead Act- Created a gov. bureau to monitor and patrol alcohol but was under funded and ineffective

  7. Al Capone • Chicago bootlegger/gangster • Ran largest crime racket during Prohibition era • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre- (1929) Bloody shootout between North and South Siders • Arrested for tax evasion and died of Syphillis

  8. Results of Prohibition • Speakeasies- hidden saloons/ nightclubs used to consume alcohol in • Ex) offices, tenements, stores, tea rooms, etc. • Bootleggers- Smugglers of alcohol • Ex) Canada, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, etc.

  9. 21st Amendment • Enacted in 1933 • Repealed Prohibition • By late 1920’s only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition

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