The Roaring 20s- Prohibition by Santiago Schmidt https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne en-us 2023-02-15 18:13:41 UTC 2023-02-15 20:34:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Speakeasy schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2483908867 I’n the 1920’s when alcohol was illegal there were speakeasy; what is a Speakeasy it’s a underground nightclub for people to go and party and drink alcohol (saloons/nightclubs)]]> 2023-02-15 18:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2483908867 Bootlegger schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484020855
  • Bootlegger is a name for smugglers that practice carrying liquor in the legs of boots
  • They smuggled alcohol from different places such as Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies
  • The business of evading the law became sort of a national sport
    • ]]>     2023-02-15 19:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484020855     San Valentines Massacre schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484021260 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QnCgNqed14]]> 2023-02-15 19:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484021260 Prohibition cotonieto9296 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484025795
  • 1920 the 18th amendment launched the era known as the prohibition. 
  • Prohibition =sales and transportation of alcohol was legally prohibited
  • Reformers thought that alcohol as the cause of crime, wife and child abuse, and job accidents.
  • Native born Protestants from a large population of rural south and west were in support of prohibition.
  • Prohibition was doomed to fail since the beginning because the government didn’t have enough money to enforce it
  • People still drank a lot and it lead to organized crime
    • ]]>     2023-02-15 19:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484025795     Rum Runners schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484066547
  • Organization of smugglers that traveled by sea to import alcohol to America 
  • This started to happen weeks after prohibition took place in December 18, 1917
    • https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of-organized-crime/rum-running/
    ]]>     2023-02-15 20:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484066547     Volstead act cotonieto9296 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484070123
  • The Volstead act established a prohibition bureau in the treasury department in 1919.
  • Made it possible for the prohibition to be passed.
  • Impossible job because 1,500 federal agents and local police had to patrol 18,700 miles of coast line, tracking down illegal stills, and monitoring highways for truck loads of liquor.

    • ]]>     2023-02-15 20:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484070123     FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) cotonieto9296 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484082241
  • FBI tried to investigate in the organized crime and stop it but they were easily outnumbered and outgunned.
  • Not enough funding
    • ]]>     2023-02-15 20:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484082241     Temperance Movement schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484084509
  • In rural Christian households they didn’t tolerate alcohol 
  • A movement mostly lead by Christian woman to enforce alcohol and prohibition 
  • To stop the production of alcohol and sales illegal
    • ]]>     2023-02-15 20:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484084509     Al Capone schmidt4524 https://padlet.com/schmidt4524/bl0ho5v9i2ptmfne/wish/2484089438
  • The City of Chicago became notorious as the city of Al Capone 
  • Made $60 million a year with his bootlegging empire business
  • He got rid of the competition by killing everyone that stood against him or his business
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