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Prohibition & organized crime

By Erik Roberts Zack Strickland. Prohibition & organized crime. Thesis. The ban of the sale, consumption, and possession of alcohol caused organized crime. Reasoning. Caused Problems Women's Christian Tolerance Union Frances Willard Carry Nation Husband drank to death

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Prohibition & organized crime

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  1. By Erik Roberts Zack Strickland Prohibition & organized crime

  2. Thesis • The ban of the sale, consumption, and possession of alcohol caused organized crime

  3. Reasoning • Caused Problems • Women's Christian Tolerance Union • Frances Willard • Carry Nation • Husband drank to death • Ratified to save wheat

  4. Enforcement • Constitution • Section 1, 2, 3 • Police

  5. Avoiding the Law • Speakeasies • Underground breweries • Bootleggers • Dukes of Hazard

  6. Organized Crime • Mafia • Bootlegging • Al Capone • Number of Federal Convicts: INCREASED 561%

  7. Videos • Dukes of Hazzard car chase • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25W908awEqg

  8. Works Cited America History of our Nation (Civil War to the Present). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2007. Print. “Arkansas Prohibition – John Barleycorn Must Die – Old State House Museum.” Old State House. Web. 13 Nov. 2009. http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/archive/john_barleycorn.aspx. "Organized Crime and Prohibition." University at Albany - SUNY. Web. 26 Jan. 2010. <http://www.albany.edu/~wm731882/organized_crime1_final.html>. The Decades Collection 1920-1929. The History Channel, 2007. DVD.

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