birth of a policy: prohibition
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This is a Power Point presentation I created for my Public Policy and Management class at Johns Hopkins. If you make it all the way to the end, you are rewarded with a picture of me drinking a very large glass of beer at Oktoberfest. Enjoy!TRANSCRIPT
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Birth of a Policy:Prohibition (the enactment of the 18th
amendment)
By: Katie Bryan
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History*
• 1907 - 1948 in Prince Edward Island • 1914 - 1925 in Russia and the Soviet Union• 1915 - 1922 in Iceland • 1916 - 1927 in Norway • 1919 in Hungary • 1919 - 1932 in Finland • 1920 - 1933 in the United States
* Other countries that also enacted prohibition
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Timeline
• 1840’s: Movement begins
• 1850’s: Maine bans sale of liquor
• 1861 - 1865: Civil War
• 1869 - 1880: Movement gains speed
• 1881: Kansas outlaws alcoholic beverages
• 1874 - 1893: Formation of prohibition groups
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Public Sentiment
• Saloon culture
• WWI
• Domestic violence
• Crime and morality
• Worker safety and
increased production
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Public Sentiment
• In 1830, the average American consumed 1.7 bottles of hard liquor per week, three times the amount consumed in 2010
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Special Interest Groups
• Protestant churches
• The Women's Christian Temperance Union
• The Prohibition Party
• The Anti-Saloon League
• Tea merchants and soda fountain manufacturers
• Kansas and Maine
• New York City – labor activists
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Legal Precedent
• Mugler v. Kansas, 1887
• Crowley v. Christensen, 1890
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Who took it up as their pet cause?
• Carrie Nation
• Reverend Mark A. Matthews and Minister Billy Sunday
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Communications Efforts
• Scolding customers
• Destroying bottles of liquor
• Entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging
saloon keepers to stop selling alcohol
• Filing court cases
• Pushing legislation
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Political Involvement
• Supporters – Maine– Kansas
• Neutral– Woodrow Wilson– Charles Evans Hughes
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The Opposing Side
• German-Americans
• Liturgical Protestants
• Roman Catholics
• Labor Unions
• Brewing Industry
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Amending the Constitution
• January 1917
• December 1917 – both houses pass the amendment
Dry Wet
Democrat 140 64
Republican 138 62
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A Policy is Born
• January 16, 1919 • 18th amendment ratified
by 36 of 48 states
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A Policy is Born
prohibited the "...manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States..."
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Thank You!
• "Volstead Act" on October 28, 1919
• 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933