A2 Edexcel History - Successes and Failures of Prohibition
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- Successes and Failures of Prohibition
- Corruption
- Big Bill Thompson
- Agents
- Only 3000
- Doctors
- Made $4 million per year
- Hoover
- Had drinking parties in the White House
- Overall consumption down
- From 2.6 to 1 gallon, per person, per year
- Opposition
- AAPA
- Women turned against it
- Rockefeller turned against it
- Financially backed
- Influential individuals
- Soft drinks and firearms industries
- Coca cola
- The Grand Temperance Drink
- Coca cola
- Illegal smuggling
- Only 5% stopped
- Canada and Mexico
- 18,700 miles of coastline
- In the work place
- Less alcohol related injuries in the work place
- More efficient
- Workers not hungover
- Speakeasies and bootlegging
- 32 places in 1 block in Manhattan where you could get a drink
- Moonshine
- Illegal distilleries
- Poor quality alcohol
- Contained soap and sulphuric acid
- Tested by the New York telegram
- Contained soap and sulphuric acid
- Some didn't even hide the fact that they weere speakeasies
- Less Injuries and arrests
- Less drink-driving
- Alcohol related deaths
- Up 600% in Chicago
- Legality of it
- Against laissez faire
- Against Bill of Rights
- 1. Rise of violence
- Al Capone
- $60 million annual profit
- Had $27 million when he went to prison for tax evasion
- John Torrio
- Retired in 1925 with $27 million
- St Valentine's Day Massacre
- 7 killed
- February 1929
- Al Capone
- Worked in some places
- In rural areas
- In the south
- Carried on afterwards in some places
- It did last 13 years
- Didn't work in cities
- Was widely ignored
- Economically
- 7th biggest industry
- Loss of 1 million jobs
- Less tax revenues
- Corruption
- Speakeasies and bootlegging
- 32 places in 1 block in Manhattan where you could get a drink
- Moonshine
- Illegal distilleries
- Poor quality alcohol
- Contained soap and sulphuric acid
- Tested by the New York telegram
- Contained soap and sulphuric acid
- Some didn't even hide the fact that they weere speakeasies
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