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PROHIBITION

PROHIBITION. Goal: was to reduce crime and poverty and improve the quality of life by making it impossible for people to get their hands on alcohol. This "Noble Experiment" was a failure. Midnight, January 16th, 1920, US went dry.

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PROHIBITION

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  1. PROHIBITION • Goal:was to reduce crime and poverty and improve the quality of lifeby making it impossible for people to get their hands on alcohol. • This "Noble Experiment" was a failure. • Midnight, January 16th, 1920, US went dry. • The 18th Amendment, known as the Volstead Act, prohibited the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol in America. Prohibition lasted for thirteen years. • So was born the industry of bootlegging, speakeasies and Bathtub Gin.

  2. PROHIBITION • People drank more than ever during Prohibition, and there were more deaths related to alcohol. • No other law in America has been violated so flagrantly by so many "decent law-abiding" people. • Overnight, many became criminals. • Mobsterscontrolled liquor created a booming black market economy. • Gangsters owned speakeasies and by 1925 there were over 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone.

  3. PROHIBITION

  4. PROHIBITION Al Capone Elliot Ness, part of the Untouchables Chicago gangster during Prohibition who controlled the “bootlegging” industry. Agent with the U.S. Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau during a time when bootlegging was rampant throughout the nation. Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a hidden underground brewery during the prohibition era.

  5. Al Capone Public Enemy # 1 Organized crime creates criminal empires like Chicago’s Al Capone. Gangsters use violence in competition for the illegal alcohol trade. Al Capone was a Chicago gangster who made a fortune during prohibition smuggling and distilling alcohol. The money generated by this illicit business eventually became a corrupting influence on the government.

  6. Al Capone was a Chicago gangster who made a fortune during prohibition smuggling and distilling alcohol. The money generated by this illicit business eventually became a corrupting influence on the government.

  7. "The Untouchables" Special Law Enforcement Agents were needed to investigate and bring charges against the power of organized crime.

  8. PROHIBITION The "Noble" Experiement

  9. PROHIBITION The "Noble" Experiement “Prohibition is an awful flop.We like it.It can't stop what it's meant to stop.We like it.It's left a trail of graft and slime,It's filled our land with vice and crime,It can't prohibit worth a dime,Nevertheless we're for it.”Franklin Pierce Adams, New York World“It is impossible to stop liquor trickling through a dotted line”A Prohibition agent

  10. Prohibition is difficult to enforce. • Crime has increased. • Prohibition is clearly not working. 21st Amendment Repeals - or cancels the 18th Amendment. Ends Prohibition.

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