Wine

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Prohibition between the wars
By Matt Dickerson, Lariza Vera, and Christopher
Woll
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The Origins of Prohibition

• Temperance movement due to damaged families.
• By 1916, 21 states had banned saloons.
• dries used statistics to persuade crowds.
• WWI increased the temperance movement.
• By 19717 enough states argued to make it the 18th
  Amendment by the Volstead act (January 1920)

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Why did prohibition start?
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Enforcement

• Lasted from 1920 to 1933.
• Levels of consumptions fell to about 30.
• Popular in the rural areas in the Mid-West,
  however Maryland never introduced prohibition.
• Isadore Einstein, and Moe Smith were two famous
  undercover police.

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Supply and Demand

• Under financing made it impossible to enforce in
  cities.
• Underpaid officers for such large areas.
• Bootleggers became millionaires.
• 1919 there were more speakeasies in American
  cities than saloons in 1919.
• Izzy Einstein statistics
• 2/3 of illegal alcohol came from Canada
• Captain McCoy was popular for using the sea

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Corruption
Corruption increased throughout the early 1920s
until 1933. Some Law Enforcements were involved
with liquor trading. Some major Breweries stayed
open through the prohibition era. Senior officers
and judges were bribed and made corruption easy.
Don Chaplin ordered his 200 agents Put your
hands on the table, both of them. Every son of a
bich wearing a diamond is fired.
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Chicago Thugs

• Organized gangsters estimated to make 2 billion
  out of illegal sales.
• George Ramus party gave ever man a gold cuff
  worth 25,000 and every women a car.
• Main gangs were Jewish, Polish, Irish, and
  Italian.
• Valentines day Massacre
• Gangsters used technology to boost their business.

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Chicago continued...

• Gangsters were more closely related to Chicago,
  the most famous was Al Capone.
• Corruption was so powerful that he even
  controlled Chicago's mayor (William Hale
  Thompson.
• He had was cheered when he attended public
  events.
• He was responsible for 300 murders.
• He was finally arrested for failure to
  pay his taxes. http//www.youtube.com/watch?vi3Kp
  lEGXwnE

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What were some of the effects of prohibition?
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The End of Prohibition

• The St. Valentines Day Massacre lead to the
  understanding that gangsters went from committing
  murders to massacring.
• When the Wall Street Crash occurred the United
  States needed a boost in the economy and
  legalized alcohol
• This created jobs, raise tax revenue, and free up
  resources used to enforce prohibition.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vOiYqFXmVAFg

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Time Line

• 1916- 21 states had banned saloons.
• January 1920- Volstead Act was passed
• 1919- Al Capone arrived in Chicago.
• 1926/1927- There were 130 murders with no one
  arrested.
• 1929- Al Capone had destroyed the power of most
  other gangs.
• 1929- St. Valentines Day Massacre.
• 1932- Franklin D Roosevelt was elected president.
• 1933- Prohibition was repealed.

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Why did prohibition end?