2. PROHIBITION & THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT 18 TH Amendment

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

4. Why Was Prohibition Introduced? 1.Moral Reasons: Alcohol Bad / Mostly Rural People Prior to 18 th 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! Name: “Green Mill” 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. 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