Forbids manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.
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Act enforcing prohibition, with exemptions for religious, industrial and medicinal usage
Volstead Act
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0.5%
Alcoholic content that constituted an alcoholic beverage under the Volstead Act
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1918 (in)
3/4 of American population already living in a dry state of county
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An argument for prohibition
Would make America a happier and healthier place, and would prevent American from becoming an alcoholic republic
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Anti-Saloon League argument against drinking during WW1
It was un-American, and drinking was supporting the brewery's who had German sounding names
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Immigrants
Drunk more alcohol per head than naturalised Americans, and Prohibition would be a way of controlling immigrants
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1917 Lever Act
Forbids grain to be used to produce alcohol, as the wheat was needed to produce food (and indirectly at least helping to cause the agricultural situation of the next few years)
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29th Jan 1920
Prohibition begins
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William Jennings Bryan said
Prohibition is dead as the issue of slavery (and at the same time beating the dead horse)
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No alcohol sold, manufactured or transported on the Earth, under the Earth or in the sky
John Kramer of the Prohibition Bureau which was set up under Volstead Act
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1528
Number of agents in the prohibition Bureau in 1920, to cover 120m people, raises to 2836 agents by 1930
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2,500
Average wage of the prohibition agent, was boosted by bribes from gangsters and general bootleggers
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William H. Stayton
Leader of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, along with James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. Who was the Senator for New York. Led to the repealing of the Volstead Act in New York state in 1923 meaning prohibition could not be enforced.
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No compromise
Anti-Saloon-League stance on the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.
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10,000 and 32,000
Number of speakeasies in Chicago and New York (respectively). Which was around double the number of saloons that existed prior to prohibition
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$60,000,000
Al Capone's earnings in 1927 from his crime ring, although taxes stated that he earnt $0, was arrested for tax irregularities
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'A moral experiment'
What Hoover called Prohibition. Hoover himself commissioned a report into the enforcement of Prohibition, but the report did not come in until 1931
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February 1933
21st Amendment that ended prohibition in America by repealing the 18th Amendment, allowing states to choose to enforce prohibition or not. Official prohibition ends on 5th December 1933. Roosevelt tells the nation 'What America needs now is a drink'
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Volstead Act
Back
Act enforcing prohibition, with exemptions for religious, industrial and medicinal usage
Card 3
Front
Alcoholic content that constituted an alcoholic beverage under the Volstead Act
Back
Card 4
Front
3/4 of American population already living in a dry state of county
Back
Card 5
Front
Would make America a happier and healthier place, and would prevent American from becoming an alcoholic republic
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