Prohibiton
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- Prohibition
- Causes
- Volstead Act in 1919
- Many Christians linked alcohol to sins like gambling and prostitution
- Men wasted money on alcohol, financially neglected their wives and children, and were violent towards them
- Groups against alcohol
- Women's Christian Temperance Union who thought alcohol was the cause of social problems
- Anti-Saloon League who linked alcohol to idleness and crime
- WASPs who associated alcohol with immigrant communities
- Lots of beer was imported from Germany, and after WW1 there were high anti-German feelings
- Consequences
- Gangsters took over the alcohol supply, set up speakeasies and became very rich
- There were illegal ways of obtaining alcohol
- Secret farm distilleries
- Bootleggers smuggling from Canada
- Alcohol related crimes increased
- Police and politicians took bribes
- 1,360 people killed by police trying to enforce the law
- 1929, 40,000 people were jailed for prohibition offences
- Prohibition was repealed in 1933
- Causes
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