Prohibition (18th Amendment)

Outlaws the sale, manufacture and transportation of

intoxicating beverages

Introduction to Prohibition• What was Prohibition?• Define Temperance• Define Morality• Define Pious• How did prohibition bring out organized

crime?• Can and should the government institute

morality into our society?

•Create a T-Chart and on one side list the evils of alcohol and on the other side list the benefits of alcohol.

Road to Prohibition

•I. 18th Amendment; ratified 1919, took effect Jan. of 1920

II. Where and why did it begin?–A. Middle America – Bible Belt

–B. Pious Movement–C. Moral (Morality) Crusade

–Evils of Alcohol

III. Prohibition Organizations

• A. Women’s Christian Temperance Movement

Again what is Temperance

Carrie Nation

“Molly Hatchet”

III. Prohibition Organizations cont.

•B. Anti-Saloon League Wyanne Wheeler

Movement became more powerful politically

•C. Impact of WWI

IV. Who approved it? Every state except for Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey

US became “Dry” in January 1920

V. Volstead Act

• Defines what is illegal and outlines the enforcement of Prohibition

• Exceptions to the rule

–For example Church or medicine

•VI. The Enforcers – Prohibition Bureau

A. Prohibition AgentsB. Izzy and Moe

Izzy and Moe

VIII. Road to Repealing Prohibition

• A. Corruption in the Prohibition Bureau

• B. Organized Crime “Speakeasies”

• C. Rum Runners• D. Drys vs. Wets

Did Consumption Decrease?

End of Prohibition

•VIII. 21st Amendment- 1933Repeal of 18th Amendment

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here of to the States by the Congress.