2. THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT 18TH Amendment
PROHIBITION &
THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
18TH Amendment

3. What was Prohibition? Prohibition: Banning Of Alcohol
18th Amendment: Prohibit Consumption/ Manufacture /Sale /Transportation of Alcohol in 1920
Volstead Act: Enforced 18th Amendment

4. Why Was Prohibition Introduced?
Moral Reasons: Alcohol Bad / Mostly Rural People
Prior to 18th Amd. 75% of Americans lived in Dry Counties/Areas
2. Groups: Pushed Gov. to Ban Alcohol Temperance Reformers
3. WW I: Unpatriotic to Drink / Save Wheat
for Troops

5. “Drys & Wets” Argued p222 DRYS ARGUED BAN ALCOHOL Improved individuals
Strengthened families
Created better Society
Stopped diseases

6. WETS ARGUED Not To Ban Alcohol Did not stop Americans drinking
Turned law abiding citizens into criminals
Created illegal networks
Violence
Corruption etc..

7. In 1920: THINK What would You Have been? Wet Or Dry?
For or Against Banning Alcohol?
& WHY???

8. LOOK-
Is this Cartoon For or Against The Banning of Alcohol ? Why?

9. LOOK-
What is the message of this cartoon?

10. What were the effects of Prohibition?
1. Speakeasies
2. Moonshine
3. Organised Crime
4. Political Corruption

11. Speakeasies Secret Saloon Bars Sold “Bootleg” Alcohol
Before Prohibition there were 15,000 bars in New York. By 1926 there were 30,000 speakeasies!
Secret Password or knock at the door

12. Moonshine Spirit made secretly in home made stills
Several hundred people a year died from this during the 1920s
In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes

13. ‘Bootleggers’
Alcohol Smugglers: Made thousands of dollars making/selling alcohol
Famous Smuggler: William McCoy Made fortune by bringing alcohol from West Indies & Canada

14. Organised Crime
Racketeers/ Gangsters: Owned illegal businesses Owned Speakeasies / Distilleries/
Bribed: Police/ Judges / Politicians
Controlled areas in Cities

15. Al Capone: Scar Face Controlled South-Side of Chicago
By 1927; Earning $60 million a year from bootlegging
His gang was like a private army. He had 700 men under his control
Responsible for 500 murders

16. BUGS MORAN Controlled North Side of Chicago
Worth A $100
by the time he
died

17. ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE

18. ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE
AL-CAPONE V BUGGS MORAN
Bootleg Rivalry
Delivery: Warehouse 2122 N. Clark St.
7 Moran Men Waited
Al Capone’s men arrived dressed as police
Moran’s men all killed

21. The downfall of Al Capone
Failed to pay income taxes-served 11 years at Alcatraz

22. 1933- 21st Amendment Repealed the 18th Amendment
Now in the US it is determined by local level