Dawson Hensel | Hudson Quinn | Zander Lee Period 4 Prohibition

The Volstead Act of 1919 banned the manufacture sale, and transport of intoxicating liquor, which did not outlaw consumption or purchase Background

 Pregnant women drank rum and milk to “help their babies sleep”  Saloons in town were usually the only place of entertainment  Alcohol was seen as the root of all evils and problems Background

 Alcohol prices rose % and people were still buying alcohol from bootleggers, the sellers If you could provide guests With alcohol, you were popular Outcome

 Were very profitable alcohol bars  No windows  One door with a covered peephole  Needed to know someone from the inside or a password Speakeasies

 Most alcohol was homemade which brought along a lot of health risks  Thousands of citizens were killed, blinded, or paralyzed as a result of drinking contaminated bootlegger alcohol The problem with Prohibition era Alcohol

 If a beverage contained more than ½% alcohol, it was illegal  Doctors would prescribe whiskey to their patients for a small fee for just about anything  The most notorious city for its mobsters and criminals was Chicago Interesting facts

 Al Capone openly reigned supreme over Chicago’s crime world  Bootlegger and owned various brothels  Ordered the infamous St Valentines Day Massacre attack Chicago run by the Mob

In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby is able to host huge parties with cocktails. How else would he have afforded to throw these parties? He was probably a bootlegger. Arts and literature

 Some town sold their jails in anticipation for the crimeless streets  Women’s Christian Temperance Union taught a “scientific fact” what most beer drinkers die from edema or swelling  Some desperate folks thought they could filter drinkable alcohol from antifreeze through a piece of bread Freakin Yeet