The effects of prohibition
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- Created on: 25-02-17 15:32
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- The effects of Prohibition
- People weren't allowed to make and distribute alcohol, but you could drink it. For a year before prohibition came into place, everyone stocked up
- There wasn't enough money to fund prohibition agents
- Only 1500 across the whole country
- easily bribed
- There were loopholes in the official Volstead act
- Speakeasies were opened: these were secret clubs that provided people with alcohol
- People spent more money on family than alcohol. Increase in wealth
- Police officers, judges and other authority figures drank alcohol away from the prohibition officers
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