A2 Edexcel History - Why did prohibition end?
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- Why did prohibition end?
- 1. The Depression
- 13 to 17 m unemployed in 1932
- General estimates around 12-13 million
- American Labour Organisation suggested 17 million
- Legality creates 1 million jobs
- 7th biggest industry in the US
- Farmers can use grain for alchohol production
- Jobs and taxes
- 13 to 17 m unemployed in 1932
- 4. Wickersham Report
- 1929 - Wickersham Commission
- Spends 18 months studying prohibition
- Report published in 1931
- Proof that prohibition wasn't working
- But still said that prohibition should continue
- 1929 - Wickersham Commission
- 6. It just wasn't working
- Led to organised crime and violence
- Al Capone "supplying public demand"
- 550 murders in Chicago
- Led to corruption
- Big Bill Thompson, Mayor of Chicago
- Doctors
- Offered medical prescriptions with alcohol
- Agents
- Only paid $2500 a year, so they were easily bribed
- Geographically impossible
- 18,700 miles of coastline
- Would need a lot of agents
- Mexico and Canada snuck it in
- Only 5% was stopped
- 18,700 miles of coastline
- 32 places in 1 block in Manhattan where you could get a drink
- Moonshine, the illegal booze grown at home
- Technially only illegal to make, distribute and sell
- Led to organised crime and violence
- 5. The legality of it
- Against the Bill of Rights
- Against individual liberties
- Seen as a racist law
- Drinking was part of immigrant culture
- Against laissez faire
- 3. Pressure
- Organisations became stronger and more organised
- More wets
- Drinking is part of city culture
- There was migration from the south to the north to the cities
- Rockefeller turned against it, giving money to the repeal campaign
- AAPA - Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
- Financially backed
- Only voted for wets
- Used statistical evidence
- i.e. the Wickersham Report
- 2. Politics
- Both Republicans and Democrats against it by 1932
- Republicans a bit split though still
- Depression was more important
- Part of Roosevelt's campaign
- One of the first things he did in office
- Both Republicans and Democrats against it by 1932
- 1. The Depression
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