USA: Prohibition + Crime
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- Created by: tidgywidgy
- Created on: 06-04-18 13:48
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- USA: Prohibition + Crime
- Origins
- 1895: Anti-Saloon league established
- By 1917: Alcohol banned in several states
- Dec 1917: 18th Amendment passed
- Jan 1919: 18th Amendment ratified
- Jan 1920: 18th Amendment comes into effect (law enforcement set up = prohibition agents to catch those with alcohol
- Key terms
- Prohibition= the legal banning of alcohol
- Speakeasy = "private clubs" which served food + alcohol
- Bootleg = Speakeasies served "bootleg" alcohol made illegally in the USA or smuggled from other countries
- Moonshine = the worst "bars" served Moonshine which was a home brewed alcohol that could be v dangerousdrink
- Why were prohibition laws passed?
- Negative effects of alcohol
- Breaks up homes + families
- Health issues
- Crime
- During the war, grain was needed for food more than alcohol production
- Long-term public pressure
- Negative effects of alcohol
- Organised Crime = crime that was so successful that it evolved into a business
- Prohibition gave it perfect conditions to grow
- Gangeters took over sale + distribution of alcohol as there was high demand + profits
- Gangsters ran gambling dens, brothels + clubs as they were making sm money, gangsters could bribe the police, prohibition agents, judges, juries+ local officials (corruption)
- Prohibition gave it perfect conditions to grow
- Link
- Prohibition led to an increase in organised crime
- Corruptionmeant that gangs were able to bribe the police + prohibition agents
- Prohibition gave gangsters a new business outlook as alcohol sales increased
- Gang war = powerful rival gangs fighting each other in order to control parts of cities
- e.g. valentines day Massacre:14th Feb 1929 Al Capones gang killed 7 rivals Bugs Moran gang in Chicago (no one was arrested)
- 1929: 400 gang related killings in chicago
- Factors contributing to gang war
- prohibition
- gave gangs money + power
- reduced the respect for the law as it involved million of ordinary ppl in breaking the law
- War
- many ex-soldiers = used to killing
- cars
- Made it possible for a surprise attack + quick getaway
- Money
- Gangs made sm money that they could bribe politicians = corruption
- violence
- Many eyewitnesses were unprepared to testify against bangs = fear
- prohibition
- Why did Prohibition fail?
- Enforcement problems
- US border with Canada = 6,416km. US border with Mexico = 3,141km. The only way to stop smuggling was to have a constant border control (not enough officers) = easier smuggling
- Gangs made alcohol or ppl made their own = officers meant to stop this
- Prohibition officers did not get cooperation from state police = corruption
- 1920: 1,512 enforcement agents 1925: 2,320 1930: 2,836 (not enough + expensive)
- legal alcohol sales: 15m in 3yrs = not working
- Public Opinion
- Disagreed with prohibition= disagreed with the Volstead act so were happy to drink giving that gangs a market
- happy to break the law corruption = not get caught
- more alcohol related deaths as more people were drinking than before e.g. moonshine increased death
- Corruption
- Enforcement officers did not get paid very well = not much for the risks they took e.g. beaten up by gangs
- If officers cooperated with gangs they got bribes = worked for gangs by setting / smugglingalcohol
- Even if officers were not corrupt, they could be obstructed by state police, judges / gov who were
- Bribed judges let criminals off in trials
- Enforcement problems
- Origins
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