introduction to prohibition
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Prohibition (18 th Amendment) Outlaws the sale, manufacture and transportation of intoxicating beverages. Introduction to Prohibition. What was Prohibition? Define Temperance Define Morality Define Pious How did prohibition bring out organized crime? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
Outlaws the sale, manufacture and transportation of
intoxicating beverages
Introduction to Prohibition
• What was Prohibition?• Define Temperance• Define Morality• Define Pious• How did prohibition bring out organized
crime?• Can and should the government
institute morality into our society?
Road to Prohibition
•I. 18th Amendment; ratified 1919, took effect Jan. of 1920
II. Where and why did it begin?–A. Middle America – Bible Belt
–B. Pious Movement–C. Moral (Morality) Crusade
–Evils of Alcohol
III. Prohibition Organizations
• A. Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
What is Temperance
Carrie Nation – Molly Hatchet
Carrie Nation
III. Prohibition Organizations cont.
•B. Anti-Saloon League Wyanne Wheeler
Movement became more powerful politically
•C. Impact of WWI
IV. Who approved it? Every state except for Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey
US became “Dry” in January 1920
V. Volstead Act
• Defines what is illegal and outlines the enforcement of Prohibition
• Exceptions to the rule
–For example Church or medicine
•VI. The Enforcers – Prohibition Bureau
A. Prohibition AgentsB. Izzy and Moe
Izzy and Moe
VIII. Road to Repealing Prohibition
• A. Corruption in the Prohibition Bureau
• B. Organized Crime “Speakeasies”– Gangsters owned speakeasies and by
1925 there were over 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone.
• C. Rum Runners• D. Drys vs. Wets
Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a hidden underground brewery during
the prohibition era.
Agent with the U.S. Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau during a time when bootlegging
was rampant throughout the nation.
Chicago gangster during Prohibition who controlled the “bootlegging” industry.
Al CaponeAl Capone Elliot Ness, part of the UntouchablesElliot Ness, part of the Untouchables
End of Prohibition
•VIII. 21st Amendment- 1933Repeal of 18th Amendment