1. Prohibition The noble experiment
Tatjana Maksimović

2. Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment. 

3. Reasons The First World War. The new authority of women
A half-century of campaigning by church leaders, politicians, evangelists and women’s groups.
The existing moral climate of the time.
Rural paranoia about urban intrusion.

5. Using family values as a tool

6. XIX Century
Wayne Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
the Volstead Act

7. Bootlegging
Moonshining
Gangsters
Al Capone
Valentine’s day Massacre
Eliot Ness

9. Great Depression
Prohibition faded as a political issue
March 1933,
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Cullen-Harrison Act

11. Good sides of Prohibition
Prohibition was observed in small towns and rural areas.
There was a general fall in cases of alcoholism.
Drinking alcohol declined in the United States.
There were less arrests for drunkenness
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12. Bad sides of Prohibition
Many people made their own alcohol called moonshine.
There was a huge increase in organized crime.
The Prohibition laws were frequently ignored in the larger cities.
The government lost money when it was no longer able to tax alcohol.

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14. References http://www.1920-30.com/prohibition