The Progressive Era Padlet Activity by Alanii Belgrave

What was Prohibition?

440309 — 2024-04-17 17:14:55 UTC

Prohibition was a national ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933 in the United States. This period aimed to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. However, it led to the opposite effects, promoting the rise of bootlegging, speakeasies, and a surge in organized crime.

Why did Prohibition start?

440309 — 2024-04-17 17:14:55 UTC

The movement for Prohibition started long before the 18th Amendment was ratified in 1919. It was largely driven by the temperance movement, which believed that alcohol was responsible for many of society's evils, including crime, poverty, and violence against women and children. Temperance advocates, including many women's groups and religious organizations, campaigned for decades to convince lawmakers and the public of the benefits of a dry America.

Bootleggers

440309 — 2024-04-17 17:14:56 UTC

With the ban on alcohol illegal bars that sold alcoholic beverages rose in popularity. Bootleggers smuggled alcohol from other countries & some would make their own alcohol. (illegal trafficking of alcohol). The term entered into the wider American vocabulary when the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the prohibition of alcohol.

bootlegging. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/bootlegging

The 21st Amendment

440309 — 2024-04-17 17:14:56 UTC

Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment, ending the nationwide ban on alcohol. This came after a growing realization that Prohibition was not achieving its goals & was, instead, leading to an increase in crime. The repeal allowed states to control the sale of alcohol, leading to the liquor laws we have instilled.

Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 21 – “Repeal of Prohibition.” (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/constitutional-amendments-amendment-21-repeal-prohibition#:~:text=Constitutional%20Amendments%20%E2%80%93%20Amendment%2021%20%E2%80%93%20%E2%80%9CRepeal%20of%20Prohibition%E2%80%9D,-Bar%20patrons%20in&text=Amendment%20Twenty%2Done%20to%20the,sale%2C%20and%20transportation%20of%20alcohol

What is the 18th Amendment and why is it bad for Alcoholics

297808_1 — 2024-04-18 15:59:27 UTC

The 18th amendments was passed January 19th, 1919 and "prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours” but not the consumption, private possession, or production for one's own consumption."

Many states passed this amendment, but the 2 states, Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected it .

This Amendment backfired hard, the sudden surge of illegal alcohol manufacturing, such as in rum-running, bootlegging, and moonshining. As alcohol production became more ilicit, criminal organizations increased their involvement in it. Pressure from this increased crime forced the government to pass the 21st amendment.

Wet vs Dry

2024-04-18 16:04:41 UTC

Wet v Dry:

"In May 1908, the people of Fredericksburg voted in a referendum to “go dry,” with 53 percent of the vote". Two years later, the “wets” petitioned for another vote, which was signed by 180 citizens, including the town’s biggest saloon owners". Staff, H. (2016). HFFI Staff. Retrieved from https://hffi.org/wet-or-dry-a-history-of-prohibition-in-fredericksburg/

2024-04-18 17:16:25 UTC

The Mafia & Prohibition

2024-04-18 17:43:23 UTC

Many mafias profited from the acts of prohibition. "By the early 1920s, profits from the illegal production & trafficking of liquor were so enormous that gangsters learned to be more “organized” than ever, employing lawyers, accountants, brew masters, boat captains, truckers and ware house-men, plus armed thugs known as “torpedoes” to intimidate, injure, bomb or kill competitors"

Prohibition Profits Transformed the Mob - Prohibition: An Interactive History. (2024). Meaning that the mafia took advantage of every possible position one could 'hide-their business for.

Retrieved from https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of-organized-crime/the-mob-during-prohibition/

Al Capone

440309 — 2024-04-18 17:45:50 UTC

Capone was a notorious American gangster who rose to fame during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. He was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. In Chicago he was organized in crime he quickly became one of the most powerful & feared mobsters.