Prohibition

PROHIBITION IN THE 1920S

By: Courtland Sargent

Joshua Davis

Ryan Robinson

WHAT CAUSED IT?

Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917• regulated food, fuel, and other commodities• Grain shortage• Breweries and distilleries closed temporarily• 18th Amendment

• permanent ban on the sale, transportation, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages

• Took effect January 17, 1920

MORE ON THE 18 T H AMENDMENT

WHAT SUPPORTERS

THOUGHT WOULD

HAPPEN:

Crime would drop

Dairy & other beverages

would prosper.

Other beverages

would replace alcohol

Juvenile delinquency eliminated

Increase in average workers

productivity

Increase in nations

prosperity

Nations Health would improve

WHAT IS THE PROHIBITION?

Everyone broke the law and because of that

everyone thought of it as whimsical and unimportant.

HOW DID IT INFLUENCE CRIME

To replace the loss of alcohol people made alcohol

Had a much higher alcohol content• Alcohol was a crime.

Illegal activity was required to market the illegal alcohol.

Drug use increased Took place of alcohol, instead of “dairy” Cigarettes became popular and were deemed

fashionable and a sign of rebellion.

CRIME INFLUENCE CONTINUED..

More jails filled with people convicted of alcohol

use or distribution

Enforcement cost millions of dollars.

US District Attorneys spent 44% of their time on

Prohibition cases

MORE ON INFLUENCE OF CRIME

• Became organized and led to the rise of powerful crime syndicates.

Murder Bribery & Blackmail Used law enforcement

All used to move large quantities of

alcohol

DEATH

Over 10,000 people died from drinking wood

alcohol.

Others went permanently blind or had severe

organ damage.

AL CAPONE

PROHIBITION IN MICHIGAN

COST OF PROHIBITION

LEGALIZATION OF ALCOHOL :A F T E R E F F E C T S

Crime was reduced

Jobs created In liquor industry

SOURCES CITED

http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhProhi

bition.php

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2

009/03/12-bad-effects-of-prohibition-you-should-kn

ow/

http://prohibition.8m.com/main_part.html