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Prohibition
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A Levels America Mapa Mental sobre Prohibition, criado por GemmaCoton em 02-02-2014.
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Prohibition
Why was it introduced?
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Threat to family life due to expenses for drinking it and domestic violence
Responsible for acts of violence
Managed to force Kansas
Carrie Nation (1890s)
Anti-Saloon League
Leader Wayne Wheeler
By outbreak of WW1 many mid-western and western states were 'dry'
Founded in Ohio in 1893
WW1
Uses up valuable grain that needed to be used in the war effort
Drinking unpatriotic
Many brewers were German origin e.g. Budweiser
Immigration
Drinking had links to foreigners that the WASPs disliked
E.g. Irish and Italian
Seen as a victory for 'nativists' over immigrants
Volstead Act
Successes
Altered American drinking habits
Boom in the sale of firearms, motorboats and cars
For Organised Crime
Boost to American soft drink companies
Output increased from 113 million to 182 million
Failures
Ignored
Harding had drinks delivered to the White House
Thousands of illegal drinking places (speakeasies) appeared
Split the Democratic Party
Drys from Rural South and West
Wets from North and East
Association against the Prohibition Amendment claimed prohibition encouraged crime
Availability of Alcohol
Still available in Mexico and Canada
Hard to enforce with thousands of miles of land borders
Treasury department had 3,000 prohibition agents paid $2,500 a year
Easily bribed
Illegal distilleries meant the USA could still make its own alcohol
Chicago was the ideal centre for the distribution of booze
Organised Crime
Widened the division between the rich and poor
Poor relied on self help, brewing their own or distilling moonshine (homemade alcohol) secretly at home
Rich went to speakeasies or private clubs
Failed because it attempted to force one moral view on all Americans
Reduced respect for the law
Organised Crime
Prohibition handed criminals the opportunity to control a huge multi-million dollar industry
Bribed officers of the law
Chicago and Al Capone
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