Prohibition
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- Prohibition
- AGAINST
- "WETS"
- AAPA (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment )
- More support for alcohol in the North than in the conservative South.
- People broke the law...
- Distilling
- Illegal distilleries were set up all over the USA as people made their own whisky.
- Moonshine was alcohol brewed by people. They could keep it themselves or even sell it.
- They were a major fire hazard. The alcohol produced was frequently poisonous and agents seized over 280,000 of them.
- Illegal distilleries were set up all over the USA as people made their own whisky.
- Speakeasies were set up.
- They were illegal bars that replaced saloons and basements.
- 30.000 set up in New York alone.
- Bootleggers
- Smuggled alcohol in their knee-high boots from Mexico. Sold quality alcohol for high prices.
- Organised Crime
- Selling alcohol became a big business. Mainly controlled by gangsters.
- Gangsters supplied alcohol, set up speakeasies and ran 'protection brackets'.
- Protection brackets: they threatened to damage property unless they were paid to protect it.
- Al Capone was a famous gangster. He bribed local officers and politicians to gain control of Chicago.
- Operated openly and didn't fear arrest. Employed up to 1,000 men in a private army.
- St Valentines Day Massacre; Capone's gang 6 members of rival gang Bugs Moran, disguised as policemen.
- Operated openly and didn't fear arrest. Employed up to 1,000 men in a private army.
- Distilling
- VOLSTEAD ACT
- January 1920
- Drinking alcohol over 0.5 was illegal/forbidden
- FOR
- ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
- Claimed fathers neglected families. Money spent on liquor instead of necessities at home.
- BUSINESS OWNERS
- People like Henry Ford complained about absenteeism at work.
- Alcohol caused absenteeism and low productivity at work.
- RELIGIOUS REASONS
- Women's Christian Temperance Union: Believed society was breaking down due to 'Demon Drink'. Drinking seen as sinful!
- OTHER GROUPS: Churches campaigned against alcohol. William Jennings Bryan(democrat) argued that 3x more money spent on drink over education.
- Supporters called "DRIES"
- AMERICAN PATRIOTS
- Brewers like Busch and Pabst were German!
- Americans encouraged to not drink so they didn't fund Germany.
- ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
- Wickersham Commission (Prohibition Fails!)
- Depression left lots of people unemployed. Drinks industry would provide more jobs.
- 1932- Presidential Election. Roosevelt promised to repeal the law.
- Bad effects of Prohibition investigated. Proposed repeal (abolition).
- Tax on booze needed by Governement due to depression.
- Depression left lots of people unemployed. Drinks industry would provide more jobs.
- AGAINST
- FOR
- ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
- Claimed fathers neglected families. Money spent on liquor instead of necessities at home.
- BUSINESS OWNERS
- People like Henry Ford complained about absenteeism at work.
- Alcohol caused absenteeism and low productivity at work.
- RELIGIOUS REASONS
- Women's Christian Temperance Union: Believed society was breaking down due to 'Demon Drink'. Drinking seen as sinful!
- OTHER GROUPS: Churches campaigned against alcohol. William Jennings Bryan(democrat) argued that 3x more money spent on drink over education.
- Supporters called "DRIES"
- AMERICAN PATRIOTS
- Brewers like Busch and Pabst were German!
- Americans encouraged to not drink so they didn't fund Germany.
- ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
- They were illegal bars that replaced saloons and basements.
- Speakeasies were set up.
- 30.000 set up in New York alone.
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