1. Bellringer (03/8/17) Submit your homework to the middle tray.
IT WILL BE COLLECTED AT 8:26 AM EXACTLY.

2. Today’s Class (03/8/17) Outcome: Agenda:
Be able to explain why Prohibition was enacted and what problems it caused in the U.S.
Agenda:
Bellringer
Prohibition Introduction & Background
Individually – Prohibition Primary Documents
Class Discussion & Review
Prohibition - success or failure?

3. Prohibition - Background
Three “waves” promoting prohibition or temperance in America:
Second Great Awakening (1820s) – helped start temperance movement in U.S.
American Temperance Society (1826)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1864)
Organized by Frances Willard
Anti-Saloon League (1893)
Opposed immigrant culture & alcohol usage

4. The 18th Amendment Ratified in Jan. 1919, took effect Jan. 1920
Discussion Question:
What is your first reaction to the 18th amendment?
Is anything missing from the wording?

5. Prohibition Primary Documents
Individually, read over Documents A – E:
Read “Source:” information first
Use vocabulary boxes for uncommon words
Respond to the questions that go with each document.
Why was Prohibition enacted?
What problems emerged from it?

6. Discussion Questions
What problems did people see in society at the turn of the century?
Why did they think Prohibition would solve these problems?
What strategies/evidence did temperance advocates use to convince people to support Prohibition?
Do you find their arguments convincing? Do you think people at the time found their arguments convincing? Why or why not?
Was Prohibition more of an attempt by middle-class Protestants to control immigrants OR an attempt to help children and families?

7. Debate Over Prohibition
Clash over alcohol showed rural-urban divide in America.
Rural = liquor caused crime, corruption and family problems
Urban = saw drinking as social activity (especially immigrants) and didn’t want government to control their morals
Prohibition was nicknamed “the noble experiment”

8. Problems of Prohibition
Not enough enforcement by government
Only 1,500 agents for the entire country.
Private saloons popped up everywhere – many required passwords or membership cards to get in.
“Speakeasies”
100,000 in New York City alone
Bootlegging becomes popular
Smuggle in foreign alcohol
Distilled homemade alcohol – very dangerous
Organized crime increased
Rival gangsters fought for control of illegal alcohol sales in cities
By the mid-1920s, only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition.

9. Prohibition Laws Today

10. Prohibition – a success or failure?
Final Thoughts
Prohibition – a success or failure?