2. Road to Prohibition

3. WCTU Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874)
Stood for women’s rights, child labor laws, worker’s rights, prohibition, etc.
1911= 250,000 members (largest women’s group in nation’s history)

4. Carry Nation
Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carry Nation.
She would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet.

5. Carry Nation
Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times, and paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets.
Changed her name to Carry A. Nation and referred to herself as “A Home Defender”.

7. Anti-Saloon League Founded in 1895
Instead of focusing on individuals, the Anti-Saloon League took a legal stance against alcohol
= half of states were “dry”
“Dry”- illegal to sell, produce, or use alcohol

8. 18th Amendment Went into effect in January of 1920
Prohibition= illegalized sale, production and transportation of liquor…use?
Initially, crime and drunkenness decreased
Volstead Act- Created a gov. bureau to monitor and patrol alcohol but was under funded and ineffective

9. Al Capone Chicago bootlegger/gangster
Ran largest crime racket during Prohibition era
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre- (1929) Bloody shootout between North and South Siders
Arrested for tax evasion and died of Syphillis

10. Results of Prohibition
Speakeasies- hidden saloons/ nightclubs used to consume alcohol in
Ex) offices, tenements, stores, tea rooms, etc.
Bootleggers- Smugglers of alcohol
Ex) Canada, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, etc.

15. 21st Amendment
Enacted in 1933
Repealed Prohibition
By late 1920’s only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition