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Prohibition
- Why was it introduced?
- It was a religious movement
- Women's Christian Temperance
Union and Anti Saloon League had
good campaigns
- Women's Christian Temperance
Union and Anti Saloon League had
good campaigns
- Caused poverty,
crime and broke up
marriages
- Already existed in some states
- Industrialists supported it and it got politicians votes
- rural people supported it
- rural people supported it
- It limited progress
- Drinking caused people
turning up to work in an
unfit state
- Drinking caused people
turning up to work in an
unfit state
- It was a religious movement
- When was it introduced?
- In 1917, the movement had enough
states on its side to propose the
18th Amendment to the constitution.
- This prohibited the
manufacture, sale or
transportation of
intoxicating liquors
- It became law in 1920
and it is known as the
Volstead Act
- This prohibited the
manufacture, sale or
transportation of
intoxicating liquors
- In 1917, the movement had enough
states on its side to propose the
18th Amendment to the constitution.
- What were the effects?
- Organised crime and corruption
- Gangsters such as Al Capone
- It encouraged ordinary people to break the law
- Gangsters such as Al Capone
- 'Speakeasies'
- These were
illegal
bars/pubs.
- There were on average
250,000 in America
- These were
illegal
bars/pubs.
- 'Moonshine'
- Homemade
illegal alcohol
- Impossible to stop
- Impossible to stop
- Caused death
- Homemade
illegal alcohol
- 'Bootleggers'
- People who smuggled alcohol
from the West Indies and
Canada
- Smuggling couldn't be
prevented, the coastline
was impossible to seal
- McCoy smuggled 70 million
dollars worth of Whiskey
- Smuggling couldn't be
prevented, the coastline
was impossible to seal
- People who smuggled alcohol
from the West Indies and
Canada
- Organised crime and corruption
- Definition: the term used to refer to the
ban of alcohol in the U.S,A
- Failure of prohibition
- There was a lack of popular support
- Most americans did not agree with it
- Most americans did not agree with it
- Ordinary people
were prepared to
break the law in
order to consume
alcohol
- The law wasn't well enforced
- Only 4,000 agents
were employed to
cover the entire
U.S.A
- Only 4,000 agents
were employed to
cover the entire
U.S.A
- Gangsters controlled the
trade through violence
- Many judges and police were
bribed by gangsters such as Al
Capone, Bugs Moran and Lucky
Luciano
- Nearly 1 in 10 agents were
sacked for taking bribes
- Nearly 1 in 10 agents were
sacked for taking bribes
- Many judges and police were
bribed by gangsters such as Al
Capone, Bugs Moran and Lucky
Luciano
- Bootleggers continued
to supply alcohol
- There was a lack of popular support
- When it ended...
- It ended in December 1933
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
repealed the 18th Amendment
- The crime
accociated with
prohibition was
slowly bought under
control
- The only crime the FBI could hang on Al Capone Tax Evasion, for which he
began a prison sentence in 1932
- The only crime the FBI could hang on Al Capone Tax Evasion, for which he
began a prison sentence in 1932
- It ended in December 1933
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