Prohibition

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Key Terms

Prohibition: refers to the banning of making, selling, and distribution of alcohol

Speakeasy: an illegal bar, private clubs that serve alcohol

Bootlegging / Rum-Running: illegal sellers of alcohol

Prohibition

Implemented in Canada 1918-1920 (PEI 1948)

Implemented in USA 1920-1933

Seen as an experiment to make society better “ The Noble Experiment”

Women’s Christian Temperance Union- WCTU

Temperance Movement

A temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Criminalization

Legal in Canada before it was legal in the US

Canada sold a lot of alcohol to the US (Windsor/Detroit corridor

“Black Market” for booze

Rise of Organized Crime

Prohibition had some positive social effects:

-Crime rate dropped

-arrests for drunkenness decreased dramatically

-Workers took their pay cheques home instead of to a tavern

-Industrial efficiency improved

Flappers

(In the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Flappers were seen as a brash (rude/cocky) for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Woman During WW1 Flapper 1920

Culture in the 1920’s

Group of 7

Fads

Jazz

Movies

Sports

Fashion

American Influences