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The Brooklyn Eagle

PROHIBITION

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Monday, November 20, 2017 2¢

Attitudes During Prohibition

Prohibition Laws Shake the Nation

-Prohibition was meant to reduce crime, solve social issues, reduce tax burden from prisons and poorhouses, and solve health issues

-Over 100,000 speakeasies in New York city alone

Reasons for Prohibition

-False floorboards in automobiles, second gas tanks, hidden compartments

End Result of Prohibition

-Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president in February 1933

-FDR’s victory meant the end for Prohibition and his 21st Amendment to the Constitution would repeal the 18th created by Herbert Hoover

21st Amendment

18th Amendment

-Created by FRD in his presidency in February 1933

-Made by Herbert Hoover during his presidency on January 16, 1919

- Supported by the Volstead Act

-Signed an amendment to the Volstead Act permitting the sale and consumption of beer with no more than 3.2% alcohol content

- Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal

Prohibition

Improve Family Conditions

Reduce Crime Rate

- No more than 0.5% was legal

Religious Belief

The legal prohibiting of alcohol

Before Prohibition in the 1920s

The Volstead Act

  • State prohibition laws 1905 - 1917
  • Been pushed for since 1826
  • Various groups fought for national prohibition

Unpatriotic Citizenship

  • The National Prohibition Act
  • Named after Andrew J. Volstead
  • Enforced the 18th Amendment
  • Enacted October 1919

Improve Work Productivity

Temperance Groups

  • Base of the Temperance Movement
  • Included fraternal orders, political parties, activist groups
  • National Temperance Life Society
  • Prohibition Party
  • American Temperance Society
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union

YA OR NA FOR PROHIBITION?

Who Was Involved?

ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE 1920s

How It Operated

Lingo

  • predominately Italian men
  • gangs were in every major city

Organized Crime: systematically unlawful activity for profit on a citywide/state/international scale

  • bribing government officials
  • smuggling illegally from other countries
  • distilling it themselves

Labour Racketeering: misuse of organized labour for criminal purposes

Examples of Gangs and Organized Crime

Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

  • February 14, 1929
  • Al Capone instructing the assassinations of Bugs Moran's gang

The Purples

  • Jewish Russian immigrants
  • famous for robbing people at gunpoint crossing the Detroit River

Distilling Liquor Themselves

Smuggling Illegally

  • bootleggers either made it themselves or hired someone to do it
  • usually made spirits
  • quality of alcohol was poor

Mafia: any sizable group involved in racketeering

  • from up north (i.e. Canada)
  • from French and English owned islands
  • made it themselves with their own washtubs
  • usually spirits

Bootlegging: illegal production and sale of liquor

Speakeasies: illegal drinking spots

Work Cited

THE ORIGINAL BAD BOYS

  • Teen in gangs

  • Al Capone

  • Retired

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prohibition.osu.edu/why-prohibition.

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www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/temperance-organizations-groups-u-s/.

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www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1596.html.

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www.theguardian.com/film/2012/aug/26/lawless-prohibition-gangsters-speakeasies.

Onion, Rebecca. “How Prohibition Gave Rise to Prejudiced Policing, the Penal System, and the Right Wing.” Slate Magazine, 11 Dec. 2015,

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/12/prohibition_history_how_the_ban_on_booze_produced_the_modern_american_right.html.

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ebooks.infobaselearning.com/View.aspx?ISBN=9781438171906&InstID=1092.

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www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536.

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www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/organized-crime/johnny-torrio/.

  • Good kid

  • Various crimes

  • Businessman

  • Alcatraz
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