PPT-THE PROHIBITION ERA THE PROHIBITION ERA BEGAN IN 1920, FOLLOWING THE RATIFICATION OF THE

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. The Jazz Age, The Harlem Renaissance and a Booming Economy. America after WWI . With American blood spilled, according to most Americans, at the fault of Europe, Americans focused their interests inward.. 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.. 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. “A return to normalcy”. The Roaring 20’s. The Jazz Age. The Good Times. Impact. Progressivism. Imperialism / Expansionism. WWI . A New Era. In 1920, Warren G Harding is elected president. States the nation needed a “return to normalcy”. . UNDER . ATTACK. The Culture Wars . of the 1920s. INTENSIVE REVIEW VERSION. USHC 6.2. Explain the causes and effects of the social change and conflict between traditional and modern culture that took place during the 1920s, including the role of women, the “Red Scare”, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, immigration quotas, Prohibition, and the Scopes trial. . 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.. 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.. Chris Perez, Alex Polidoro, Peter McFarren. Key Players. Theodore Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson. Florence Kelly. Frances Willard. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt . Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. th. Amendment? . Aim: Were the 1920s a step forward or back?. PROHIBITION AND CRIME. The 18. th. Amendment: . banned the sale and consumption of alcohol . Prohibition Support . Volstead Act:. . law enacted by congress to enforce the 18. 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 . “”Hey what about the 24th?” read . and annotate the text for Speaker and Occasion. . Highlight textual evidence using your . Blue or Purple. Label your evidence with an S and O.. Write your annotation using Sentence Stems! . “. The New Woman. ”. Women played an important role in jobs in WWI . – but they are forced out of their jobs after. “Flappers” represented changes in values. . Short hair, short skirts, heavier makeup, listened to jazz music, openly drank and smoked cigarettes. “. The New Woman. ”. Women played an important role in jobs in WWI . – but they are forced out of their jobs after. “Flappers” represented changes in values. . Short hair, short skirts, heavier makeup, listened to jazz music, openly drank and smoked cigarettes.