The Effect of Prohibition on Organized Crime by Meghan Hoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc en-us 2019-07-08 19:17:22 UTC 2025-12-23 17:27:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 1 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/370548320 "Prohibition." In Gale U.S. History Online Collection. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed January 27, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IKOIIJ609668014/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=ca6d3ab7.]]> 2019-07-08 19:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/370548320 Organized Crime meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/436454561 "name given to the various mobs that controlled dozens of criminal enterprises in urban centers around the country"(2)]]> 2020-01-27 15:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/436454561 Gangster Era meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441297935 1920s-30s]]> 2020-02-06 00:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441297935 2 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298054 "Gangster Era." In Gale U.S. History Online Collection. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 5, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/WTPHIL563246847/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=15a499bf.

]]> 2020-02-06 00:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298054 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298671 the illegal selling of alcohol became a very profitable business (2)]]> 2020-02-06 00:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298671 3 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298958 "Al Capone." In Violence in America, edited by Ronald Gottesman and Richard Maxwell Brown. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 5, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2350015015/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=cf03afda.

]]> 2020-02-06 00:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441298958 4 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441639340 Kauffman, Heather. “Prohibition: Is Banning Alcohol a Social Necessity or Restriction of Freedom?” April 3, 2006. Issues & Controversies in American History. Infobase Learning. https://icah.infobaselearning.com/icahfullarticle.aspx?ID=107276 (accessed February 6, 2020).]]> 2020-02-06 16:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441639340 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441640892 came to be because of an increasing consumption of alcohol (4)]]> 2020-02-06 16:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441640892 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441641594 a way to protect life at home - men spending money in bars, domestic violence, didn't want young people to drink 
(4)]]> 2020-02-06 16:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441641594 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441643386 people against it argued that allowing alcohol would help the economy - provide jobs, increase spending 
(4)]]> 2020-02-06 16:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441643386 5 - Primary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441644748 “Carry A. Nation on the 'Legal Status of Prohibition and Joint Smashing'.” Issues & Controversies in American History. Infobase Learning. https://icah.infobaselearning.com/pdocument.aspx?ID=109570 (accessed February 6, 2020).

]]> 2020-02-06 16:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441644748 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441801179 "His organization, later known as the Outfit, at its peak had over one thousand members and numerous associates."(3)]]> 2020-02-06 19:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441801179 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441804273 supplied alcohol during prohibition (3)]]> 2020-02-06 19:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441804273 Intention of Prohibion meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926106 2020-02-07 00:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926106 Reality of Prohibition meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926236 2020-02-07 00:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926236 How Al Capone took advantage meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926319 2020-02-07 00:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926319 Sources meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926566 2020-02-07 00:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926566 How the Government Reacted meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926682 2020-02-07 00:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441926682 st. valentines day murders and other crimes meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441959031 2020-02-07 02:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/441959031 6 - Bootleg meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442150319 Blumenthal, Karen. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition. 1st ed. New York: Roaring Book Press, 2011.]]> 2020-02-07 14:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442150319 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442156976 7 of George "Bugs" Moran's men were waiting in a garage, Al Capone's men pulled up dressed in police uniforms. The 7 men lined up agains the wall expecting a police search, and were shot (6)]]> 2020-02-07 14:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442156976 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442158920 had tried to solve growing problems of drunkenness (6)]]> 2020-02-07 14:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442158920 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442159644 "people who had always followed rules now openly ignored the highest law of the land" (6)]]> 2020-02-07 14:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/442159644 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443089610 the untouchables
- said to be incorruptible
- led by agent Eliot Ness
-- flawless reputation for honesty (9)
- in charge of making sure that people did not manufacture, buy, or consume any alcohol]]> 2020-02-10 15:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443089610 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443089822 government poisoning factories' alcohol
- many people became seriously ill
- doctors at first thought it was just messed up liquor, but instead, it was from the US Government (Federal Poisoning Program)
"Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after is was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the US, products stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits" 
- scare people into giving up drinking
- killed at least 10,000 people (8)
]]> 2020-02-10 15:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443089822 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443090384 war and ptsd lead to increased drinking]]> 2020-02-10 15:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443090384 20-25 sources meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443090888 2020-02-10 15:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443090888 7 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443092272 Getchell, Michelle. “Prohibition (Article) | 1920s America.” Khan Academy. Khan Academy. Accessed February 10, 2020. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/prohibition.]]> 2020-02-10 15:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443092272 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443093436 American temperance society started in 1826 
- encouraged voluntary absence from alcohol
- influenced successor organizations
Religious sects became involved in temperance (Methodists)
- women were very influential (7)]]> 2020-02-10 15:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443093436 end meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443095598 2020-02-10 15:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443095598 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443097860 "saloons and heavy drinking culture they fostered were associated with immigrants and members of the working class, and were seen as detrimental to the values of Christian denominations" 
- anti saloon league 
-- most powerfull pressure group in US History (changed the US constitution) (7)
]]> 2020-02-10 15:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443097860 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443100359 Eighteenth Amendment - January 16, 1919
didn't outlaw alcohol, but many americans started stockpiling alcohol (7) ]]> 2020-02-10 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443100359 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443104824 bootlegging - the illegal distillation and sale of alcoholic beverages (7)]]> 2020-02-10 15:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443104824 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443105444 law enforcement agencies lacked the resources to consistently and effectively enforce prohibition (7)]]> 2020-02-10 15:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443105444 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443106396 "the effects of prohibition-the rise of a criminal class, the corruption of public officials, and a widespread disrespect for the rule of law - represented a serious threat to American households and families"(7)]]> 2020-02-10 15:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443106396 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443108283 21st amendment ended the ban on alcohol (7)]]> 2020-02-10 15:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/443108283 8 - Secondary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444121353 Blum, Deborah. “The Little-Told Story of How the U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol during Prohibition.” Slate Magazine. Slate, February 19, 2010. https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html.]]> 2020-02-12 02:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444121353 9 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444122884 "The Dark Side of the 1920s." In Almanac and Primary Sources, edited by Kelly King Howes, 94-116. Vol. 1 of Roaring Twenties Reference Library. Detroit, MI: UXL, 2006. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 11, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/CX3448000015/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=11708cd0.]]> 2020-02-12 02:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444122884 10 - Secondary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444127522 Judge, Phoebe. Carry A. Nation. Criminal. Podcast Audio. August 18, 2017.  https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-73-carry-a-nation-8-18-2017]]> 2020-02-12 02:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444127522 11 - Prohibition meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444340144 Behr, Edward. Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.]]> 2020-02-12 14:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444340144 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444344962 "it can be argued that some of America's biggest villains during the Prohibition era were not the Al Capones, Johnny Torrios, Gus Morans, Dutch Schultzes, or Frank Costellos, but the political bosses in New York, Chicago, and elsewhere who used the underworld to their considerable advantage, [...] coniving police and law enforcement officials who supplemented their incomes with mobster money." (11)]]> 2020-02-12 14:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444344962 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444354968 "he had an innate public relations sense -- whether paying the hospital expenses of a middle aged woman bystander who had been severely wounded in the eye in a shoot-out aimed at killing him in cicero or opening soup kitchens for the destitute after the 1929 crash, even as he was about to go to jail for tax evasion" (11)]]> 2020-02-12 14:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/444354968 12 - Secondary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447412617 Kauffman, Jill. “Temperance Movement: The Fight for an Alcohol-Free America.” July 10, 2008. Issues & Controversies in American History. Infobase Learning. https://icah.infobaselearning.com/icahfullarticle.aspx?ID=107210 (accessed February 19, 2020).]]> 2020-02-19 14:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447412617 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447413103 - Alcohol abuse is responsible for a variety of social problems
- increased crime and poverty
- "robs people of their moral faculties"
- unhealthy
-lowers worker productivity.
- people cannot be counted on to restrict their own behavior, legislation is necessary to keep alcohol out of their hands
- States have a right to regulate business (12)]]> 2020-02-19 14:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447413103 13 - Primary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447415085 “U. S. To Sue Al Capone For $345,011 in Taxes.” The New York Times. September 28, 1937.]]> 2020-02-19 14:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447415085 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447422950 catching al capone - ]]> 2020-02-19 14:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447422950 14 - Primary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447428127 Prohibition: the 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act, the 21st Amendment, Prohibition: the 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act, the 21st Amendment § (1986).]]> 2020-02-19 14:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447428127 15 - Secondary Source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447824135 Anti-Saloon League
http://www.westervillelibrary.org/AntiSaloon/]]> 2020-02-20 02:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447824135 16 - Journal Article meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447826040 Martin, James Kirby. "Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition." Journal of Social History 40, no. 3 (2007): 774+. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 19, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/A162457494/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=bfa4a19f.]]> 2020-02-20 02:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447826040 17 - primary meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447966502 "The Volstead Act, 1919." In Gale U.S. History Online Collection. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2015. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 20, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/PISHHI530058902/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=03553e45.]]> 2020-02-20 12:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447966502 18 - Journal meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447968788 Fahey, David M. "The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State." The Historian 79, no. 1 (2017): 132+. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 20, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/A490718214/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=0b416c71.]]> 2020-02-20 12:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447968788 19 - Journal meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447970950 Bever, Megan L. "Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920." The Alabama Review 68, no. 1 (2015): 120+. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 20, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/A396138042/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=f955e163.]]> 2020-02-20 12:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/447970950 20 - meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/449868108 "The Eighteenth Amendment Ushers in the Prohibition Era: January 16, 1919." In North America, edited by Jennifer Stock. Vol. 6 of Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2014. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed February 24, 2020). https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.nobles.edu/apps/doc/CJLUOC829571962/UHIC?u=mlin_m_noble&sid=UHIC&xid=491703e3.

]]> 2020-02-25 01:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/449868108 21 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/449869297 https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/images/18thamendment.pdf]]> 2020-02-25 01:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/449869297 22 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/451742749 The American Issue Publishing Company, a printer and distributer of phamphlets, leaflets, magazines, and books created by the Anti-Saloon League, circa 1918]]> 2020-02-27 23:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/451742749 23 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453006759  Hall, Wayne. “What Are the Policy Lessons of National Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, 1920–1933?” Wiley Online Library. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, March 10, 2010. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02926.x.]]> 2020-03-02 15:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453006759 24 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453017792  Miron, Jeffrey A, and Jeffrey Zwiebel. “Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition.” NBER Working Papers Series, 1991. https://doi.org/10.3386/w3675.

]]> 2020-03-02 15:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453017792 25 - meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453685173 History.com Editors. “18th And 21st Amendments.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, February 4, 2010. https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/18th-and-21st-amendments.]]> 2020-03-03 15:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/453685173 26 - anti-saloon argument primary source meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/455319585 https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-westerville-ohio-usa-15th-mar-2018-the-anti-saloon-league-museum-at-177202853.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=0AE59F5E-645A-4C22-9FA9-40AD595E19D8&p=151045&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3danti%2520saloon%2520league%26qt_raw%3danti%2520saloon%2520league%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0%26pl%3d]]> 2020-03-05 19:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/455319585 27 meghanhoffman https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/455329482 https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/temperance-movement-and-prohibition]]> 2020-03-05 19:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meghanhoffman/eopooc/wish/455329482