Prohibition and the Rise of the Mafia

What year was the crusade against alcohol, where women marched in protest, starting in Ohio and spanning across the entire country?

1873

What was the name of the lady with the hatchet who would travel from town to town, smashing saloons all over the state of Kansas?

(She ended up destroying somewhere from 20-30 saloons and was arrested 32 times throughout)

Carry Nation

Leader of The Anti-Saloon League (ASL), he was the one who rallied people to be against alcohol, and forced politicians to vote against alcohol.

(If a politician was in favor of alcohol, he would around up support against them and force them to be against it)

Wayne Wheeler

“Dry” meant supporting laws against the manufacture sale and transportation of..

(States and politicians could be “dry”)

Alcohol

When did prohibition officially start

January 1920

Which amendment was the prohibition amendment

The 18th amendment

Which act explicitly defined intoxicating beverages as any beverage containing 0.5 alcohol or more, and also created the specialized federal agents force, who were task with hunting down bootleggers?

The Volstead Act

Which brand of grape concentrate blocks were sold in stores, with a very specific warning label, telling you how not to accidentally make it into alcohol through fermentation?

(obviously, as a way of telling people how to make it into alcohol and bypassing prohibition)

Vine Glo

fill in the blank: Prohibition initially failed because the government was trying to police the entire country, but they only had ______ Federal agents in the Bureau of Prohibition enforcing it.

1500

What would people use to make liquor during this time?

Illegal stills

The government began _____ to the products the moonshiners were using in their production, as a way of discouraging bootlegging

Adding toxins

A ship/the person operating it who would smuggle alcohol by water into the United States was called what?

Rum runner

What was the name of the line of ships anchored in the waters of the east coast just beyond America’s maritime limit? They acted as a storage for the liquor, where smaller ships traveled to pick it up.

Rum Row

The name of the people who were making, selling, and transporting alcohol during the prohibition?

Bootleggers

One of the biggest bootleggers, who was originally a lawyer.

(He became a bootleggers because he noticed his clients were getting extremely wealthy from bootlegging, And he realized he could use his deep knowledge of the law to make an insane profit)

George Remus

What were the establishments where illegal alcohol was served during the prohibition?

(the famous ones were lively, underground nightclubs featuring live jazz bands, dance floors, and private tables. You’d typically need a password to get in and they’d be disguised behind genuine businesses, or unmarked doors in alleyways)

Speakeasies

Much less classy than a speakeasy, these establishments would charge customers a fee to see a fake attraction, such as a "striped pig", and then hand out a "complimentary" alcoholic drink to bypass local prohibition laws

Blind Pig

the alcohol made during the prohibition, like the harsh moonshine, tasted terrible. Due to this, they would hide the poor quality alcohol by making them into _____.

(Mary Pickford, Barbary coast, French 75)

Cocktails

it seemed like the alcohol laws were being ignored throughout the entire country. One prohibition agent decided to travel the country and see which city was most lax when it came to prohibition laws. The winner was ______, where a cab driver offered him a drink after just 35 seconds!!

New Orleans

Religious fundamentalists who were in favor of prohibition wanted what?

Alcohol removed from the Bible

What was the Jewish-American gang, led by the Bernstein Brothers, who ran Detroit during prohibition?

the purple gang

Who was the Jewish mob boss who controlled much of New England’s bootlegging

Charles Solomon

What was Al Capone’s nickname

Scarface

During prohibition, this group took a very anti-alcohol stance and commonly harassed speakeasies and ran bootleggers out of town. They even sometimes tar and feathered bootleggers in the south.

The KKK

This industry began during prohibition, where ships would sail to international waters where the ban on alcohol did not apply. The ship would sail around in circles, just drinking all day

Booze cruises

Where did Al Capone rule

Chicago

What was the Irish-American gang that rivaled Al Capone’s gang?

The North Side Gang

What nickname did Al Capone prefer? His closer friends called him this

Snorky

Al Capone’s gang, the Chicago Outfit, was also called ____

The south side gang

This woman served on the republican national committee, and initially supported prohibition. later, after seeing the chaos it created, she decided against it. She founded the Women’s Organization for national prohibition reform, and called for the 18th amendment to be repealed.

Pauline Sabin

On Feb 14 in 1929, 4 of Al Capone’s men dressed as cops shot and killed seven members of the North Side Gang (the Irish gang). They had tricked the men into meeting them at a garage in Chicago. What was this event called?

(This event caused national outrage and people became so tired of the violence that they blamed prohibition for helping to create it)

The Valentine’s Day massacre

Al Capone was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in prison for _____ in 1931

Tax evasion

Which famous prison did Al Capone stay at

Alcatraz

The final nail in the coffin for prohibition was ___ which started in 1929.

The Great Depression

During the Great Depression, how many people lost their jobs

15 million

Al Capone ____ during the Great Depression in 1930

Opened a soup kitchen

Who was president during the start of the Great Depression, who refused to repeal prohibition even during the start of the Great Depression

(Even though people it was expensive to reinforce, and repealing it would create jobs and tax revenue for the government)

Herbert Hoover

which president, during Hoovers attempt at reelection in 1932, went up against him and promised the people that he’d repeal the 18th amendment.

(He won by a landslide because people were tired of the Great Depression and Hoovers prohibition stance)

FDR

Which endorsement did FDR get during his campaign against Hoover

Pauline Sabin

One of FDR’s first acts as president was to pass the ______. This made beer legal while the new amendment to end prohibition was being ratified

Beer Permit Act

Prohibition finally ended with the passage of the ______ in 1933

21st amendment

Prohibition lasted from…

1920 to 1933

What was the final state to repeal its prohibition laws?

Mississippi

what was signed in 1933 that allowed the sale of low alcohol beer

Cullen Harrison Act

At exactly 12:01 AM on April 7, 1933, Washington DC‘s Abner-Drury Brewery sent a guarded truck to the White House to deliver the nations first legal cases of post prohibition beer to who?

FDR

Due to the fact that outlaw moonshiners would modify everyday cars in order to outrun the police, _____ traces its roots back to prohibition.

NASCAR