New Ways of Life

1. _____________________: the ban on the manufacture, sale & transportation of liquor anywhere in the U.S. (January 1920) • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union had worked to ban alcoholic beverages for nearly a _____________________ • - _____ Amendment (Jan ‘19) took a year to finally go into action • - In the 1920s, alcohol abuse was a serious problem & there was hope the ___________________________ • Evading the Law • - Many Americans found ways to get around the law • - People made their own booze _______________ • - Many smuggled liquor in from Canada/ Caribbean • - Smugglers were known as ____________________ • as they often hid bottles of liquor in their boots • - _________________________ : illegal bars which opened in nearly every city & town • Often made drinking liquor more popular than ever • To enforce the band, gov’t sent out federal Prohibition agents known as ____________ who travelled across the U.S. shutting down speak-easies, ________________________& stopping smugglers New Ways of Life • Organized Crime • - Prohibition gave a huge boost to ___________________________ • - Every speak-easy needed a _________________________of liquor • - Professional criminals or ______________________took over this job • - Bootleggers earned big $$ so crime became a big business • - Gangsters divided up cities & forced speak-easy owners in their territories to buy their liquor • - Gangsters would use profits to bribe _____________, public officials & judges • Repeal of Prohibition • - Americans began to think Prohibition was a mistake • - The ban reduced drinking, but never stopped it • - By the end of the decade, many Americans were calling for the repeal: cancellation of Prohibition • - 1933—21st Amendment : repeals the 18th Amendment (only constitutional amend. that’s ever been repealed)