PPT-Gangsters and Prohibition

1920s Write the main idea of each slide Prohibition The Prohibition era lasted from 1920 through 1933 and was an attempt to legislate morality It took a Constitutional amendment to enact it and another one to repeal it The attempt to decrease the evils of alcohol actually created more and new types of crime. Temperance Cartoons. A Nation of Drunkards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0. . 6:05. The Anti-Saloon League. The Anti-Saloon League focused only on the legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages. . Who were the “Lost Generation?” What did they write about? . What was the National Origins Act of 1924?. Who was Langston Hughes? What did he write about?. What was the theme of Harlem Renaissance art?. 1920s economy. By 1924, the economy recovers and there is a lot less discontent in society. Canada enters a period of post-war prosperity. People begin to have money in their pockets again to spend on luxuries . 1920-1933. Passed by the 18. th. Amendment. Growth of criminal organizations. America’s problems blamed on alcohol . Prohibition. 18. th. Amendment – January 17. th. , 1920. Section . 1..  After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.. Society of the 1920s. Prohibition. 18. th. Amendment/ Volstead Act. Ban on sale, manufacture, or transportation of alcohol. 1920-1933. 21. st. Amendment ended Prohibition. Prohibition. Volstead act prohibited sale of alcohol. By: Brock Wilson & Jesse Olmstead. A Little History On Prohibition. Prohibition was largely a struggle between ethnic groups.. In Illinois, for example, “fifty three per of state’s residents were either foreign born or the children of foreign born parents…” (Buenker 363).. Salome Cap. Background. Progressivism-aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, correct injustices in American life. Came from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WTCU). 1920’s. Review. The 18. th. Amendment (Prohibition) outlawed the making of, transporting, and the selling of alcohol.. Rise to Power. That led to people buying alcohol illegally.. The people who produced, transported, and sold it were known as “bootleggers”.. John Lyons. Prohibition. The ratification of the 18. th. amendment began the era known as Prohibition.. However, the Prohibition movement began in the 1820’s-1830’s when religious revivalism was calling for temperance.. By: Jennifer, Cassandra, Viviana, and Vanesa . Ms. Madrid . Period. 2. 2-21-15. What is Prohibition?. Prohibition is a law or regulation forbidding something. In the 1920’s prohibition meant ban on the sale and production of alcohol beverages. Alcohol was a big problem during this time that caused abuse, ruined careers and ruined marriages. . Definition. the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of . alcohol in . the US between 1920 and 1933.. Beginning Ideas of Prohibition. Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Fought for Prohibition. read: “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors...is hereby prohibited”. EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION. Alcohol consumption went down ⅓. Alcohol related deaths declined . Decrease of arrests for drunkenness . “Silent Cal” Becomes President. “The business of America is Business”. Coolidge believed in little government intervention in the economy. Said very little. Silent Cal Gives the People what They Want – laissez-faire!. PROHIBITION IN PRACTICE. ENFORCING THE NEW PROHIBITION LAW PROVED TO BE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE, AS MAKING, TRANSPORTING, AND SELLING ALCOHOL WAS ILLEGAL, BUT DRINKING IT WAS NOT.. PROHIBITION GAVE RISE TO HUGE SMUGGLING OPERATIONS, AS ALCOHOL SLIPPED INTO THE COUNTRY THROUGH STATES LIKE MICHIGAN ON THE CANADIAN BORDER..