Prohibition (18 th Amendment) Outlaws the sale, manufacture and transportation of intoxicating beverages
Learning Targets 1.Determine the reasons which brought about Prohibition 2.Analyze the positive and negative effects Prohibition had on American society. 3.Predict what led to the repeal of Prohibition
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? Create a T-Chart and on one side list the evils of alcohol and on the other side list the benefits of alcohol.
Road to Prohibition
I. 18 th 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 Again what is Temperance
Carrie Nation “Molly Hatchet”
III. Prohibition Organizations cont. B. Anti-Saloon League Wyanne Wheeler Movement became more powerful politically C. Industrial support D. 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 Agents B. Izzy and Moe
Izzy and Moe
VIII. Road to Repealing Prohibition A. Corruption in the Prohibition Bureau B. Organized Crime “Speakeasies” C. Rum Runners D. Drys vs. Wets
Did Consumption Decrease?
End of Prohibition IX. 21 st Amendment Repeal of 18 th Amendment Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here of to the States by the Congress.
Learning Targets 1.Determine the reasons which brought about Prohibition 2.Analyze the positive and negative effects Prohibition had on American society. 3.Predict what led to the repeal of Prohibition
Reflective Question How will Prohibition bring about a more influential economically and politically organized crime?