1. KKK and Prohibition

2. KKK Klan violence was reaching an all time high in the early 1900’s
1920 saw a sudden collapse when a congressional investigation became into the financial aspects of the Klan
Discrimination of blacks continued but not with the organized Klan members

3. Stemming the Foreign Flood
Emergency Quota Act of 1921-
3% of an nationality living in U.S. in 1910 were allowed into the country into any given year
Immigration Act of 1924
Quotas were cut to 2% and the quotas were taken from 1890

4. Prohibition
18th amendment made the buying, selling and/or making of alcohol illegal in the U.S.
Southerners and westerners loved the law
Southerners wanted to keep alcohol out of the hands of blacks
Westerners saw alcohol as the one vice associated with the saloon: drunkenness, prostitution, corruption, and crime

5. Opponents to Prohibition
American spirit came out of prohibition
Government control over private life has never gone over well
A few things came from prohibition:
Speakeasies
Underground saloons
Bathtube gin and homebrew