Prohibition Era

History

Time Line

Organized Crime

Review /Quiz

StAIR Info Assignment

The Road to Prohibition

• Many people felt that alcohol was the root of many of societies problems.

– Problems were beating their wives and children and too much money being spent on alcohol.

– So, they felt that if you get rid of alcohol, then many of society’s problems would go away.

– Women were part of the big push for prohibition

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18th Amendment

• Early in 1919, Congress 18th Amendment which made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal.

• This meant that you could no longer buy, sell or make alcohol legally in the U.S.

• The question that you must ask yourself is, would making alcohol illegal actually make people stop drinking?

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Fighting illegal alcohol

Volstead Act: • Created the Prohibition Bureau.

• Federal agency whose job was to enforce the 18th amendment.

• Primary failed because of high levels of corruption and because it was undermanned and underfunded.

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Police Corruption

• Illegal alcohol businesses thrived as a result of all the corruption in police departments.

• In certain precincts in Chicago, all police from beat cops to the commander were bribed.

• Police were not paid very well at that time

– Bribes were for a simple warning phone call or ignoring the sale of alcohol at a bar or restaurant.

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Speakeasy Society

• Speakeasy = Underground club or restaurant where illegal alcohol is sold

– It could be simple like the back room of a restaurant

– Or more elaborate like a full fledge nightclub with live music and dancing including dinner.

• They were left alone as long as they paid off the police.

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21st Amendment • Canceled the 18th amendment and ended prohibition.

• The 1920’s showed that prohibition did not work.

– Alcohol was still sold and it brought on a new wave of violence associated with organized crime.

• As the Great Depression began, support for prohibition was kept going down.

– Some people felt that if you legalized it you could tax it and the government would have more money.

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Prohibition Video

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Review Question (Applause means you got it correct – No sound equals incorrect)

What agency, law, or amendment created the Prohibition Bureau?

19th Amendment

Volstead Act

Capone act

18th Amendment

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Review Question (Applause means you got it correct – No sound equals incorrect)

What was the name of underground clubs that sold illegal alcohol during

prohibition?

Backroom Clubs Speakeasies

Beer Saloons Saloons

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Prohibition Timeline

1850 1933

1/16/1919 – 18th Amendment is passed which made Alcohol consumption is how illegal

1851 – First Prohibition law is passed in Maine

1869 – Prohibition party is founded

1920 – Volstead Act sets up Prohibition Bureau to stop illegal alcohol

1893 = Anti-Saloon league is formed

12/5/19133 – 21st Amendment is passed – Alcohol once again becomes legal

1920’s – Gangsters like Al Capone begin to make large sums of money on illegal alcohol

1917 - U.S. Senate passes Volstead Act which was the first step in passing the 18th Amendment

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Timeline Question (Applause means you got it correct – No sound equals incorrect)

Who passed the Volstead Act?

House of Representatives

Senate

Supreme Court

President

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Timeline Question (Applause means you got it correct – No sound equals incorrect)

• The first prohibition law was passed in what state?

New York Maine

Vermont Massachusetts

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Alphonse Capone

• Capone began his rise in the Colosimo Crime Family of Chicago.

• In 1924, he became boss and built a 60 million a year empire through violence and corruption.

• Prohibition agents tried to convict him but were unsuccessful.

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The Downfall of Al Capone • Capone was connected to many murders

and ran an illegal alcohol empire

– He avoided conviction through intimidation, violence and bribery.

• Capone would go to jail for tax evasion.

– Found guilty of five counts of tax evasion and failing to file tax returns

• He was sentenced to 11 years and served part of it at Alcatraz penitentiary.

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The Mafia and Prohibition

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More Gangsters

Johnny Torrio – Al Capone’s mentor. He killed James Colosimo and took over his criminal empire in early 1920. He led the family to great fortune but retired in 1924.

Bugs Moran – Head of a North Chicago gang and rival of Al Capone. It was Moran’s men who were killed at the famous Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. His power disappeared with the end of prohibition.

Lucky Luciano – Considered the father of modern organized crime for splitting New York City into five different mafia families and set up the first commission of all five families.

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Review of Organized Crime (Applause means correct answer - no sound on click means answer is incorrect)

Al Capone was convicted and sentence to 11 years in prison for which crime.

Bribes Tax evasion

Murder Selling illegal alcohol

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Review of Organized Crime (Applause means correct answer - no sound on click means answer is incorrect)

Who was Al Capone’s Chicago rival?

Lucky Luciano

Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio

Big Bill Thompson

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Content Review

Which amendment ended prohibition and once again made alcohol legal in the U.S.?

21st 5th

19th 18th

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Correct! During the Great Depression, support for

prohibition fell and the 21st amendment made alcohol legal

once again. Click the arrow below to move on to the next question.

Content Review

The Prohibition Bureau primarily failed because of high levels of corruption and

It was undermanned and underfunded

Because Bugs Moran was in charge

Each state had its own prohibition bureau

As a result of bad leadership

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Correct! Illegal alcohol was sold all over the country and

they needed more money and agents to be able to efficiently

fight it. Click the arrow below to move on to the next

question.

Content Review

How did Al Capone get his $60 million a year empire?

Violence and corruption

Bought it from Johnny Torrio

Hard work and perseverance

Working with police to put his competitors out of business

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Correct! Al Capone had a good public

image because he donated money to charities and treated people well but

he was ruthless in business. He did not have a problem killing any of his competitors if it helped grow his

empire. He bribed police, judges, prosecutors, and juries to avoid being

convicted. Click the arrow below to move on to the next question.

Content Review

Who was considered the father of modern Organized Crime?

Lucky Luciano Al Capone

Johnny Torrio Bugs Moran

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Correct! Lucky Luciano organized a system

of five different crime families running New York City. Then he created a

commission where the heads of these five families could meet together for business

or settle disagreements.

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Prohibition Quiz

• Now that you have gone through several Review questions, lets find out how many of those same questions you can answer.

• No more looking back at the information.

• Go to the next slide and answer the following questions and email them to me.

Prohibition Quiz True/False Questions: Next to each question, type True or False as your answer.

1. __________ - The 18th amendment officially repealed prohibition and made alcohol legal once again.

2. __________ - Al Capone made his alcohol empire through violence and corruption. 3. __________ - Johnny Torrio was Al Capone’s mentor. 4. __________ - Speakeasies were factories where alcohol was illegal produced for

gangsters like Al Capone. 5. __________ - The prohibition movement was rooted on the idea that alcohol was the

root of many of societies problems. 6. __________ - The Volstead Act allowed authorities to put Al Capone in jail for not

paying his taxes. 7. __________ - The Prohibition Bureau failed because of corruption and because it was

undermanned and underfunded. 8. __________ - Lucky Luciano was Al Capone’s rival in Chicago. 9. __________ - During prohibition, alcohol was mostly sold in hidden back rooms

where the police could find them. 10. __________ - Police corruption played a very little role in rise of organized crime in

illegal alcohol. Copy and paste your questions/answers and email them to Carbaja5@msu.edu

Good Job!! You are now done with your quiz. Make sure you email me the quiz with your

name on it and period. Click the arrow at the bottom to

go to your assignment on prohibition.

StAIR Information • Focus of StAIR

– This StAIR will focus on the prohibition era in United States during the 1920s. It will focus on how the 18th amendment led to criminals finding a new source of income, organized crime growing, and a rise in corruption in city/state politics.

• Unit of study

– Postwar WWI America

• Standards

– 11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.

• 3. Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).

• Objectives

– SWBAT (Student will be able to)

• Know what led the U.S. to pass the 18th amendment (prohibition).

• Understand what18th amendment was and how it changed American society in the 1920s.

• Recite all the new problems that resulted from prohibition.

• Discuss what led to the end of prohibition with the passing of the 21st amendment.

• Citations of images

• Citations for sources

Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre • One of the worst examples of

violence associated with prohibition happened on 2/14/1929 when Al Capone’s men executed 7 members of Bugs Moran’s North Chicago gang.

• Two of Capone’s men were dressed as police officers and had Moran’s men line up against the wall.

• Then Capone’s men opened fire with Tommy machine guns and tore the bodies up leaving some unrecognizable.

Prohibition Assignment

• Create an Outline of Chapter 13, Section one.

– Read the section about prohibition (Ch.13, Sect. 1)

– Use your outline format to create your outline

– Due ________________

– If you do not have your outline format with you or you lost it, just click on the link below and you can get it online.

• Outline format

Citations of Images • http://www.barossa.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/images/Alcohol_Dry_Are

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• http://www.weedist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/NORML-Remember-Prohibition.jpg

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Instructions for StAIR

• As you go through this StAIR, you will be learning about the prohibition era in the U.S.

• Start on the top right with the “History” tab and begin reading some information on prohibition.

• Follow the directions at the bottom of each slide.

• Eventually go will go through all of the tabs on the main page. Make sure you go in order.

Sources • "Prohibition Era Timeline." About.com American History. N.p., n.d. Web.

13 Aug. 2012. <http://americanhistory.about.com/od/prohibitionera/a/prohibition.htm>

• "Al Capone." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 08 June 2012. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone>.

• Buchanan, Edna. "LUCKY LUCIANO: Criminal Mastermind." Time Magazine U.S. Time Magazine U.S., 07 Dec. 1998. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989779,00.html>.

• "George "Bugs" Moran." George "Bugs" Moran. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. <http://www.gambino.com/bio/bugsmoran.htm>.

• Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.

• The majority of information used for the slides came from memory. I learned some in my University history classes and the rest from reading of the topic over several years. So in order to give some sources, I went online and into my textbook to find some sources that also had the information that I used.