Syndicate

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PROHIBITON

• Syndicate 1
• Claire
• Nikki
• Amber
• Angela

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• Prohibition seemed to offer the promise of a
  great cure-all for poverty, corruption, and
  crime.
• - Bill Severn

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Events leading up to Prohibition
The 1920s A decade of contrast 1. Freedom on
dress, behavior, and sexual attitudes were
conflicting with ideals of the New Puritanism.
2. Traditional small town ways of life clashed
with new urban ways. 3. Religious
fundamentalism went under rebirth and many
people tried to hold on to the traditional
morals and values. 4. The Anglo-Saxon class,
the most influential group in American society,
began to decline.
Decline of Anglo-Saxon class 1. They typically
weredescendants of early European settlers,
People with responsibility in communities,
educated, favored less government involvement.
2. Tried to hold their power in American
Society by Immigration restriction,
Anti-Semitism, joining KKK, maintaining economic
control.
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• Prohibition was not first seen in the 1920s
• 1. Maine Law of 1881-prohibited the manufacture
  and sale of intoxicating liquors in the state of
  Maine.
• 2. 1855- 13 out of 31 states gad prohibition
  similar to Maine.
• 3. 1870- Womens Christian Temperance Union
  formed to further cause of temperance.

• Population Explosion
• (described in 1910-1911)
• 1.Birth rates of immigrants and poor native-born
  American exceeded those of Anglo-Saxon.
• 2.Many of these new Americans settled in large
  states.
• 3. Republican party had been based among
  Protestants in small towns big cities showed
  growth in Catholic and Jewish populations.

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Prohibitionists

• 1. Represented the desires and ideals of the
  Anglo-Saxon establishment.
• 2. Typically were from small towns, middle class,
  immigrants, Jews and Catholics.
• 3. Many thought drinking liquor was immoral, some
  wanted power taken from urban political machines,
  some wanted to further personal political
  careers.

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Womens Christian Temperance Union

• - formed by Frances Willard in 1873
• - goal was ending production, sale, and
  consumption of alcohol
• - composed of mostly women angered by men who
  abused their wives and children

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Anti-Saloon League

• formed in 1893 by Howard Hyde Russell
• believed in working within existing party system
• developed highly successful lobbying techniques
• had support from business men who believed
  liquor was slowly production
• Organized local-option campaigns in which small
  towns banned liquor within their geographical
  limits.

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Prohibition Party

• Political party formed in 1869
• Their aim was abolition of liquor trafficking
• James Black was the 1st presidential candidate.
• They wanted to enhance freedom and dignity of the
  individual and protect the welfare of the family.

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Prohibition- the Noble Experiment

• - 1920- 1933
• 18th Amendment
• Volstead Act
• Federal Prohibition Bureau

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Why Prohibition?

• End drunkenness
• Eliminate alcohol related deaths
• Decrease crime
• Abolish the saloon
• Safer roads
• Different uses for money
• Decrease taxes
• Moral grandeur

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Benefits of Prohibition

• Helped worker efficiency
• Milk consumption
• Effects on public health

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Reasons that prohibition failed

• 1.MONEY-
• - government corruption
• -government spending to keep alcohol out
  increased
• - price of alcohol increased.
• 2.ALCOHOL-
• - increase in sales, and potency
• -age at which one first started drinking dropped
• - Iron Law of Prohibition by Richard Cowan

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• 3. CRIMES-
• - increase in other illegal drugs
• - more bootlegging
• -smuggling of alcohol
• -organized gangs formed to make distilleries
• - prisons became full
• 4. HEALTH HAZARDS-
• - bootlegged alcohol would be mixed with toxic
  chemicals
• - death rate increased due to toxins
• REPEAL OF PROHIBITION-
• - began death march of prohibition in Feb. 1933
• - Great Depression
• - 21st Amendment passed