Prohibition & Gangsters
Main People and Groups:
-Rockefeller: strong supporter& endorser of the prohibition movement (contradicting this, he also became a supporter of the repeal of the 18th amendment)
-Woman's Christian Temperance Movement: oldest women's organization that were advocators of prohibition, founded in 1874
-Earl Dodge and the Prohibition PartY: Created in 1867 to advocate Probhibition ansd legeslation banning the Production and sale of alcohol. Earl DOge was nominated its Candidte for President twice during the Late nineteenth Century
-Andrew Volstead: called "The Father of Prohibition", helped the volstead Act to be passed which is also known as the National Prohibition Act (written by the Anti-Saloon League).
- John Torrio: one of the founders of mob violence, created the crime organization that was later taken over by Al Capone, insisted on illegal buying and selling of alcohol during prohibition.
-Al Capone: the head of one of the largest organized crime organizations that controlled chicago during the prohibition era and made millions off of gambling, prostitution and most importantly, illegal smuggling of booze.
WHat Happened:
EFFECTS:
-Revealed government weakness because legislators had trouble enforcing Prohibition LAws when so many people didn't find crime in drinking
-promoted illegal activities and backfired on prohibitionists, even office holders often were secretly "wet"
-drinkers turned to liquor (the higher alcohol content the better because of the fact that it would take less to become intoxicated as well as because of their limited access)
-Revealed more corruption through successful bribery of the police to turn the other cheek
-Crime hit its All time worst in 1932, Leading to the Lindbergh Law, which made interstate abduction a possible death-penalty offense
-Further degradation of Blacks was a result of Prohibition because many southern and westerners supported prohibition in order to keep alcoholic beverages out of the hands of blacks
-Revealed government weakness because legislators had trouble enforcing Prohibition LAws when so many people didn't find crime in drinking
-promoted illegal activities and backfired on prohibitionists, even office holders often were secretly "wet"
-drinkers turned to liquor (the higher alcohol content the better because of the fact that it would take less to become intoxicated as well as because of their limited access)
-Revealed more corruption through successful bribery of the police to turn the other cheek
-Crime hit its All time worst in 1932, Leading to the Lindbergh Law, which made interstate abduction a possible death-penalty offense
-Further degradation of Blacks was a result of Prohibition because many southern and westerners supported prohibition in order to keep alcoholic beverages out of the hands of blacks
PRIMARY SOURCES:
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