AQA History GCSE - Prohibition
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- Prohibition
- What was prohibition?
- the banning of selling, producing and transporting of alcoholic liquor (not the consumption)
- Why did some people want Prohibition?
- Anti Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Union supported it
- Alcohol was blamed for breaking up families, causing ill-health and causing unemployment
- Alcohol caused immoral behaviour
- Most breweries owned by German's - after the war campaigners claimed it would be patriotic to close down their industry
- What problems did Prohibition cause?
- Organised crime:- led to prostitution, drugs and gambling
- Gangsters fought to control the business (Valentines Day Massacre)
- It turned ordinary people into criminals - people prepared to break the law to continue drinking
- Led to illegally made alcohol - moonshine, which could be lethal
- Speakeasies developed (illegal drinking clubs)
- Bootleggers would smuggle alcohol into the USA from Canada
- Organised crime:- led to prostitution, drugs and gambling
- Why was it abolished?
- Police reluctant to enforce law and were open to bribes (In Chicago, the Mayor was known as an associate of the gangsters)
- Al Capone said to have earnt $100,000 a year through supplying the demand of alcohol.
- Public demand for alcohol
- Prohibition led to corruption
- What was prohibition?
- What was prohibition?
- the banning of selling, producing and transporting of alcoholic liquor (not the consumption)
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