Prohibition
- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 30-03-13 16:20
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- Prohibition
- Organised Crime
- Out of 7,000 arrested in New York, there was only evidence for 17 to be convicted
- Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled control for illegal trade in Chicago
- St Valentines Day Massacre - 1929, Capones gang killed 7 of Moran's gang
- It is estimated that Chicago alone experienced 227 gangland murders
- It was argued that alcohol brought misery to the home through men spending wages on beer instead of the family
- Drink also became associated with immigrants who flooded into the US
- By 1917, 19 states had already adopted it but it became nationwide through the Volstead Act in 1920
- Prohibition was estimated to cost $5 million dollars but this was later reconsidered to be $300 million
- There was a serious lack of enforcement officers with 3,000 to cover the whole of the country
- They could also be easily bribed
- Organised Crime
- Out of 7,000 arrested in New York, there was only evidence for 17 to be convicted
- Al Capone and Bugs Moran battled control for illegal trade in Chicago
- St Valentines Day Massacre - 1929, Capones gang killed 7 of Moran's gang
- It is estimated that Chicago alone experienced 227 gangland murders
- There was so much corruption and it was suggested that one prohibition agent made $7 million from selling illegal licenses to pardon bootleggers, rather than his $2,500 wage
- There was a serious lack of enforcement officers with 3,000 to cover the whole of the country
- They could also be easily bribed
- There was so much corruption and it was suggested that one prohibition agent made $7 million from selling illegal licenses to pardon bootleggers, rather than his $2,500 wage
- There was so much corruption and it was suggested that one prohibition agent made $7 million from selling illegal licenses to pardon bootleggers, rather than his $2,500 wage
- They could also be easily bribed
- There was a serious lack of enforcement officers with 3,000 to cover the whole of the country
- Organised Crime
- They could also be easily bribed
- Cleveland had 1,200 bars prior to prohibition but then had 3,000 speakeasies (adverse effects)
- There were approximately 50,000 deaths from unregulated alcohol
- Alcoholism deaths however were cut by 80%
- Deaths from liver cirrhosis per 1,000 males were cut from 29.5% in 1911 to 10.7% in 1929
- Moonshine was very dangerous could lead to blindness and even death, 30 people died in one year in New York alone
- Organised Crime
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