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1. Are there other ways to get alcohol?
2. How do gangs effect speakeasies?
3.what are speakeasies?
4. How do you get into a speakeasies?
5. History of speakeasies?
6. What is prohibition?
7. what is the profits of selling alcohol illegally?

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-The Volstead act (encouraged rural dwellers to continue drinking)
-speakeasies are run by gangs
- home brewing/wine making
- can get caught by police in speakeasies
- speakeasies have been around sence the 1890's but prohibition makes it dangerouse
-the sale of alchol was aproximetly $3.6 billion in 1926
-doctors prescribed it and some pharmacy sold alcohol only as a prescription

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"Prohibition violation occurred most frequently in large cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York. In big cities, the native-born middle classes tended to drink less than either the wealthy or the working class. Among the reasons for this pattern was the high cost of alcoholic beverages during prohibition. Whiskey or beer could be, and often was, obtained legally with a physician's prescription declaring it necessary for medicinal purposes, but that required a visit to the doctor as well as the pharmacy where it was sold."

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"The speakeasy had been part of the American scene since at least the 1890s"

"At the height of their popularity (1924–1933), speakeasies were generally either bars or restaurants to which people gained admission by personal introduction or by presenting a card, usually informally. "

"In social class they ranged from smart restaurants to underworld dens, but whereas before Prohibition, most "respectable" women would not be welcome in a public bar, women as well as men began flocking to speakeasies."

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"Bootlegging, the business of obtaining, transporting, and selling illegal liquor, was a perilous but lucrative business in the 1920s given that a substantial number of people, especially in big cities, were prepared to ignore the prohibition law."

"Italian, Polish, and Jewish men in their 20s dominated bootlegging, often establishing and managing large and complex organizations to carry on the business. Competition among bootleggers was fierce and often violent, not surprising considering that the lucrative trade completely lacked the government regulation"

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"Immigrant communities did not generally consider drinking a crime, regardless of what U.S. law declared. Most came from cultures that took alcoholic beverages for granted as a normal part of everyday life. Home brewing and wine making were common traditions. "

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"Rural America viewed alcohol as primarily a problem of urban life, where drinking took place in saloons"

"The Volstead Act encouraged rural dwellers to view their own continued drinking as legal and harmless. The law prohibited manufactured beverages containing more than .5 percent alcohol, a standard that outlawed not only distilled spirits but even low-powered beer, the staples of working-class saloons. At the same time, the Volstead Act outlawed naturally fermented cider and wine only if proven intoxicating, which was in fact a much higher standard and one rarely if ever policed."

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"The 18th Amendment brought the federal government into people's daily lives in a fashion never before experienced in peacetime. Significantly, national prohibition made it a crime to sell but not to purchase or use alcoholic beverages, leaving many people with conflicting feelings about personal decisions as to whether to drink. The resentment that many Americans felt toward national prohibition and the unhappiness of many others with its ineffective enforcement would provoke debate about the dry law all across the country in the years to come."

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"speakeasies (illegal places selling alcohol and usually offering live music, dancing, and gambling, for late-night entertainment)"

" By 1926 the sale of alcohol in the United States was estimated to be worth $3.6 billion, making many bootleggers, or people involved in the illegal manufacture and trade of alcohol, millionaires."

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"Prohibition—an amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1919 that made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal"

"did not stop the energetic optimism of the decade, nor did it stop people from drinking."

"So many speakeasies popped up around the country that the police could not effectively enforce"

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Global Issues in Context - Document - Roaring Twenties: 1919–29

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Global Issues in Context - Document - Roaring Twenties: 1919–29

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Daily Life through History - Drink in the United States, 1920-39

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Daily Life through History - Drink in the United States, 1920-39

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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - Speakeasy

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Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document - Speakeasy

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Are speakeasies really a way to manipulate prohibition

Argumental statement: Speakeasies are a new way to buy and sell alchol but how safe are they

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There are other ways to drink liquior that are much safer than speakeasies