PPT-Prohibition, Crime & Scandal

By Jennifer Cassandra Viviana and Vanesa Ms Madrid Period 2 22115 What is Prohibition Prohibition is a law or regulation forbidding something In the 1920s 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 . 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. 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.. Immigration and Prohibition: 1920’s. 18. th. Amendment gave organized crime an opportunity to make a name for themselves by making, selling and transporting liquor. Sicilian Mafia in Italy was under attack by Benito Mussolini. 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. . was to reduce crime and poverty and improve the quality of life. . by making it impossible for people to get their hands on alcohol. . This . "Noble Experiment". was a failure. . Midnight, January 16th, 1920, US went dry. . The End of prohibition. Prohibition Fails. Enforcement of Prohibition failed.. Smugglers brought liquor into the United States through port cities. Speakeasies opened across the country.. People throughout the country made their own illegal liquor.. : . a way of being IN our WORLD & time. . . ANTHONY . bARTLETT. For Girard “. scandal” is the gospel word for mimetic crisis. . Mimesis makes scandal not a moral thing but a structural relational thing. . Kayla . Horrell. Chelsi. . Ferri. . Period 1. Illegal Activity of the 1920’s. Organized crime. Mafia. “La . cosa. . notra. ” – (“our thing”). The mob. Organization of Sicily and U.S. Protection and vigilante law enforcement. Immigration and Prohibition: 1920’s. 18. th. Amendment gave organized crime an opportunity to make a name for themselves by making, selling and transporting liquor. Sicilian Mafia in Italy was under attack by Benito Mussolini. By Tyler sweet and Catherine jock. Bonnie and . C. lyde . Bonnie and Clyde were a very dangerous couple.. They were known for many killings and bank robberies. They preferred small gas station robberies were they could get away with it, without being seen doing any harm . 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 . . Prohibition . Era. “Why don’t they pass a Constitutional amendment prohibiting anyone from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on the Earth.”. Objective: Explain the Temperance movement and how women won the right to vote. Temperance Movement. a campaign to stop the drinking . of alcohol. . During the industrial revolution, . workers would typically come to . 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..