https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns en-us 2023-02-14 15:17:24 UTC 2023-02-15 14:49:07 UTC hello@padlet.com mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482745877 Goal: was to reduce crime and poverty and improve the quality of life, by making it impossible for people to get their hands on alcohol.
- Midnight,January 16th, 1920, US went dry.
Speakeasies- or illegal bars became more common than the legal ones that existed before prohibition.

Bootleggers- people who made their own alcohol, which could cause blindness, rotgut and death.

Rum runners- smugglers of imported whiskey, rum and other liquor by sea and over land to the United States.]]> 2023-02-15 00:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482745877 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482751179 Women were too aware of the negative effect that alcohol was having on families. Some men would drink the days wages away at the local speakeasy, as the result there was often little money left to pay for food, shelter and clothing for their families.
Many women became active in the Temperance Movement: educating the public and encouraging them to abstain from drinking.]]> 2023-02-15 00:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482751179 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482755736 18th amendment in 1919 banned the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages. Took effect January of 1920, Fed Prohibition Bureau created to enforce law.

Only 15,00 agents to police the entire country, this agency was set up by the Volstead act.]]> 2023-02-15 00:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482755736 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482760251 Before: slaughtering of seven men by AI Calones gang
- Capone sought control of bootlegging in Chicago 
- Opened Americans eyes to gang crimes,Perpetrators never found or imprisoned

After: shocked Americans 
- led to downfall of Morans gang
- AI Capone imprisoned two years later
- Both gangs affected greatly ]]> 2023-02-15 00:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482760251 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482767159  Chicago: 1,300 gangs had spread like a deadly virus 
- wallets bursting from bootleggers profits,gangs outfitted themselves with “Tommy” guns and operated with impunity by paying off politicians and police alike.
- by 1926, 12,000 murders across America each year
Organized crimes: bank robberies, kidnapping, auto theft, gambling, and drug trafficking.]]> 2023-02-15 00:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482767159 navarro1986 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482782814 For:
-had strong support from protestants,women reformers and christian denominations
-was the most powerful political pressure group in all US history
-nicknames "wet" supporters
-they were mostly men/alcoholics  

Against:
-nicknames "drys"
-they most attended by progessives in the prohibition,demo and rep parties, and gained a base through a temperance union runned over by christian women
-they hated that their husband were coming home drinking alcohol]]> 2023-02-15 01:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482782814 navarro1986 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482874670 Al Capone
-he was a very rich man: spend most of the $$ on people that worked for him (bribes,police,politicians and federal investigators)
-he was stupid with the cash ( didnt use it the right way: spend it on gambling)
-all of his work was held in Chicago,IL
-Known as one of the ruthless and smartest gangland bosses during the St.Valentine’s Day Massacre 

Elliot Ness
-He was in a personnel team called " The untouchables" =against Al Capone (1927)
goal: to bring down his underworld network
-His career in law enforcement ended (1944)
-His greatest achievement was traffic control 

]]> 2023-02-15 02:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2482874670 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483496155
-Didnt had a good relationship with Al Capone (tried to kill him three times)
-Capone ended up getting physically and mentally exhausted
-After Prohibiton, Bugsy left Chicago and went the need for bootlegging alcohol → got arrested for bank robbery (1946)
-His criminal career took an abrupt downturn after the infamous St.Valentine’s day masscure (1929)]]> 2023-02-15 13:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483496155 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483499940
-Was considered the father of modern organized crime in US -Started his criminal career in the five points gang in Manhattan
-He was involved in illegal gambling,prostitution, and other illegal enterprises.
-His first major run-in with the law happened because he was caught getting involved with drugs and pimping (1916)

]]> 2023-02-15 14:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483499940 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483525155 Chicago was a war zone/hot mess

One of the most challenging eras the U.S had to face.]]> 2023-02-15 14:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483525155 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483546726 2023-02-15 14:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483546726 navarro1986 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483557020 At some point both Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were in the same gang]]> 2023-02-15 14:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483557020 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483557263 2023-02-15 14:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483557263 navarro1986 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483569335 FBI was the one that finally arrested Bugsy Moran and put a end to his criminal behavior]]> 2023-02-15 14:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483569335 mendrycki1653 https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483570709 The FBI was so little known that they were confused with the Secret Service or Prohibition Bureau Agents ]]> 2023-02-15 14:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mendrycki1653/20xcsj322etqu5ns/wish/2483570709