Mr. Parsley's Prohibition Quizlet

Years of Prohibition

1919-1933

The Progressive Era

When the prohibition movement, temperance movement, and anti-alcohol movement grew

Reasons for Prohibition

Women's groups, temperance beliefs (temperance: to abstain from alcohol, religion, nativism and WWI Hatred of Germans; Use grain for soldiers' bread, not beer! Also, save money for the war. (Hated Germans and Irish and Italian with their tradition of drinking.) Reasoned prohibition would Americanize immigrants. Racist reasons, unemployment; wasting money, reduce crime, Lowered productivity (which is why famous businessmen like Henry Ford, John Rockefeller, A. Carnegie spoke out against alcohol), correct marital unfaithfulness and abuse; families also suffered from alcohol fathers and husbands

Anti Saloon League

Founded in 1893; a temperance group; worked with the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperence Union); also worked with the NAACP, KKK, politicians (especially republicans); Wayne Wheeler was the leader

Carrie Nation

Lady with the WCTU who spoke out against alcohol and also destroyed bars and saloons; motivated by her faith and the death of her husband; jailed over 30 times

18th Amendment

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages; passed Congress in 1917 but was ratified by the majority of the states in January 1919

Volstead Act

law enacted by Congress to reinforce the Eighteenth Amendment; written by Andrew Volstead; passed October 1919; also outlawed the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol

Good Results of Prohibition

-Fewer death count from alcoholism, marriages and families held together! More rights to women too, different drinks! IBC = Independent Breweries Comp. Ingredients came from "roots" of plants, employment maintained and increased; with restaurants, soda fountains, etc., less crime (while alcohol-related crime dropped markedly), actually helped limit the amount of drinking in the USA, NASCAR was invented from bootleggers racing from the cops

Bad Results of Prohibition

Unemployment for alcohol related jobs, loss of government revenue in tax dollars and was expensive to enforce, thousands died from improper manufacturing, people had it anyway from bootlegging, church related jobs, pharmacy jobs, taking bribes as cops, etc.

Speakeasy

An illegal liquor store or nightclub; they were called speakeasies because one had to whisper a password through a locked door to get inside

Bootlegging

The illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol; hide it in one's boots to distribute it; moonshine = illegally made alcohol

Ugly Results of Prohibition

Increase in organized crime, politicians and police corruptly involved, increase in homicides due to gang violence, jails were full and cost tax payer dollars, police and gangsters have bigger weapons (tommy guns; machine guns)

Al Capone

Son of Italian immigrants and born in NY; crime boss in Chicago; involved with organized bootlegging, prostitution, gambling, and speakeasies; worth $1.4 billion in modern currency; arrested due to tax evasion while President Hoover was in office

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Al Capone (Italian mobster) had his men disguised as police and they machine gunned seven of Bugs Moran's (Irish) men; a massacre for organized crime; Capone was in Florida; 1929 in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago; showed the brutality of organized crime during prohibition

Reasons for the Repeal of Prohibition

To limit crime, provide jobs during the Great Depression, bring in revenue to the government, expensive prison and prisoner system, and it didn't fully work as intended

21st Amendment

Repealed the prohibition of alcohol; legalized the sale and manufacturing of beer with a 3.2% alcohol content; canceled all that the eighteenth outlawed; passed in February 1933 during FDR's time in office; by December of 1933, 36 states had ratified the 21st amendment.