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1 The Prohibition Period
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2 Prohibition A law that forbids something.

3 What was this new Law Forbidding?

4 production or consumption of alcoholic beverages.

5 sense of right and wrong.
What are Morals? sense of right and wrong.

6 What did the Government believe it was doing by banning Alcohol?

7 controlling people’s safety, health, welfare and morals.

8 Speakeasies Secret bars where people could purchase alcohol.

9 Volstead Act What Was the Volstead Act? The National Prohibition Act.

10 Illegal production & selling of liquor.
Bootlegging Illegal production & selling of liquor.

11 18th Amendment Federal & State governments would enforce prohibition.

12 21st Amendment This removed the 18th Amendment.

13 How did it change the Society?
Modernism, defeated the supporters of traditional moral values.

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