Prohibition
The causes and effects.
- Created by: Nika Nerd
- Created on: 24-03-14 20:00
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- Prohibition
- The 'noble experiment'
- Valstead act
- 18th Amendment of the United States constitution
- Introduced in 1920
- Banned manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol
- Federal gov had power to enforce this law
- Introduced because of..
- Already existed in 'Bible belt'
- Moral reasons
- Campaigners
- Anti- Saloon League
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Men drinking their troubles away after WW1
- Effects
- Speakeasies
- Secret saloon bars opened in cellars/ backrooms
- Had names like the 'Dizzy Club'/ 'Kit Kat Club'
- Drinkers often had to say password/ secret knock to get in
- Sold 'bootleg' alcohol, smuggled in from abroad
- Bars in NYC
- Before Prohibition- 15,000
- 1926-30,000
- Moonshine
- Spirit made secretly in home stills
- Several hundred died from it during the 1920s
- 1929- 700 million gallons produced
- 'Bootleggers'
- Alcohol smugglers
- USA has 1000s of miles of frontier- easy
- William McCoy made millions
- Organised Crime
- Enormous profits attracted gangsters
- Started to take control of many cities
- Bribed police, judges and polititions
- Controlled speakeasies and distilleries
- Eliminated rivals
- Enormous profits attracted gangsters
- Al Capone
- 1927- earning $60 million a year from bootlegging
- Gang of 700
- Responsible for over 500 murders
- St Valentines Day Massacre
- 14th Feb 1929
- His men dressed as police officers and murdered 7 members of a rival gang
- Sentenced to 10 years on Alcatraz for tax evasion
- Speakeasies
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