PPT-Roaring 20s Notes 2 Prohibition

Definition the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the US between 1920 and 1933 Beginning Ideas of Prohibition Womens Christian Temperance Union Fought for Prohibition. 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 . 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.. We’ve looked at the interesting, now how do we get to the cause of the depression?. I can understand the CRASH of the 20s. Listen to the song . “Blue Skies”. by Irving Berlin. Respond to the following questions in your. 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).. (Library of Congress). In the 1920s baseball recovered from the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 as attendance soared in ballparks throughout the country. (. Photodisc. , Inc.). Charles Lindbergh with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. His 1927 flight from New York to Paris instantly made him an American hero. (Library of Congress). The Golden Age. The Jazz Age. The Roaring 20s. The Age of Ballyhoo. How . ya. . doin. ?. America was doing well for itself.. Daily life had improved due to the disillusion of peace and happiness.. Define disillusion. 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!. Ch 7.1. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS. What is a recession?. Do economic recessions increase feelings of . Nativism. against immigrants?. Monday. , March 19, 2012. Understand the different clashes of values in the 1920s.. . 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.”. A Scholarship Presentation by Rachel Lampson and John Williams. Biography of Mary Firth . (1584.  – 26 July . 1659). Her name was first referenced on 7 August, 1610 in John Day’s lost . Madde. . 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..