1. 18th Amendment

2. The Root - Temperance Movement

3. American Temperance Society
The American Temperance Society was formed in 1826 and benefited from a renewed interest in religion and morality. Within 12 years it claimed more than 8,000 local groups and over 1,500,000 members

4. Temperance Movement and Female Activists
The temperance movement existed alongside various women’s rights and other movements, including the Progressive movement, and often included the same activists such as Susan B. Anthony.

5. Prohibition
A nationwide constitutional ban on the sales, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933

6. Speakeasies, Bootleggers, Moonshiners and Rumrunners

7. Led to Organised Crime and Al Capone
By 1927 he was earning some $60 million a year from bootlegging.
His gang was like a private army. He had 700 men under his control and was responsible for over 500 murders.
‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’ – Capone’s gang killed seven adversaries on Valentine’s Day

8. Appealed by 21st Amendment
In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition.

9. 13th Amendment

10. Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery, but he had been elected on a platform that promised not to interfere with slavery within the slave states.
During the Civil War, his primary aim was to save the Union.

11. Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862
Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September It declared that all the slaves in the Confederacy were free (not those in the loyal border slave states).

12. The Reconstruction The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865.
Most of the land in the South was destroyed by the Civil War. The South would need to be rebuilt.
This rebuilding of the South was called Reconstruction.
The South also had to accept a ban on slavery. 12

13. The Slaves Are Free
With the ending of the war, the slaves were now free.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed.
The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal forever in the United States. 13

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15. But the Blacks were Still not Completely Free
The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states that limited the new-found freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes forced African Americans to work on farms or as servants. They also prevented African Americans from owning guns, holding public meetings, or renting property in cities. 15

16. And Had to Face the Rise of KKK