Prohibition
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- Prohibition
- Reasons why prohibition was introduced
- female reformers believe there is a link between alcohol and wife beating and child abuse
- many people believed that drinking reduced efficiency and output at work
- religious believers saw it as sinful
- anti saloon league were very powerful organisation and made prohibition one of the top political issues
- men were spending a lot of time/money in saloons
- thought it would support and strengthen the traditional values of the american people
- patriotism - beer linked germany
- Reasons why prohibition failed
- Speakeasis - by 1930 new york had 30000 speakeasis
- bootlegging and illegal brewing
- organised crime (gangsters)
- it was impossible to enforce - 2500 agents werent enough
- although deaths from alcoholism fell by 80% by 1921, by 1926 50000 people had died from poisoned alcohol made illegally
- The St. Vlalentines Day Massacre 1929
- The Great Depression - government could alcohol and brewing industry could create jobs
- Reasons why prohibition was introduced
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