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PROHIBITION IN THE 1920S
By: Courtland Sargent
Joshua Davis
Ryan Robinson
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WHAT CAUSED IT?
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917• regulated food, fuel, and other commodities• Grain shortage• Breweries and distilleries closed temporarily• 18th Amendment
• permanent ban on the sale, transportation, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages
• Took effect January 17, 1920
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MORE ON THE 18 T H AMENDMENT
WHAT SUPPORTERS
THOUGHT WOULD
HAPPEN:
Crime would drop
Dairy & other beverages
would prosper.
Other beverages
would replace alcohol
Juvenile delinquency eliminated
Increase in average workers
productivity
Increase in nations
prosperity
Nations Health would improve
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WHAT IS THE PROHIBITION?
Everyone broke the law and because of that
everyone thought of it as whimsical and unimportant.
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HOW DID IT INFLUENCE CRIME
To replace the loss of alcohol people made alcohol
Had a much higher alcohol content• Alcohol was a crime.
Illegal activity was required to market the illegal alcohol.
Drug use increased Took place of alcohol, instead of “dairy” Cigarettes became popular and were deemed
fashionable and a sign of rebellion.
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CRIME INFLUENCE CONTINUED..
More jails filled with people convicted of alcohol
use or distribution
Enforcement cost millions of dollars.
US District Attorneys spent 44% of their time on
Prohibition cases
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MORE ON INFLUENCE OF CRIME
• Became organized and led to the rise of powerful crime syndicates.
Murder Bribery & Blackmail Used law enforcement
All used to move large quantities of
alcohol
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DEATH
Over 10,000 people died from drinking wood
alcohol.
Others went permanently blind or had severe
organ damage.
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AL CAPONE
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PROHIBITION IN MICHIGAN
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COST OF PROHIBITION
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LEGALIZATION OF ALCOHOL :A F T E R E F F E C T S
Crime was reduced
Jobs created In liquor industry
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SOURCES CITED
http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhProhi
bition.php
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2
009/03/12-bad-effects-of-prohibition-you-should-kn
ow/
http://prohibition.8m.com/main_part.html