road to prohibition
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• Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874)
• Stood for women’s rights, child labor laws, worker’s rights, prohibition, etc.
• 1911= 250,000 members (largest women’s group in nation’s history)
• Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carry Nation.
• She would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet.
• Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times, and paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets.
• Changed her name to Carry A. Nation and referred to herself as “A Home Defender”.
• Founded in 1895• Instead of focusing on
individuals, the Anti-Saloon League took a legal stance against alcohol
• 1900-1917= half of states were “dry”
• “Dry”- illegal to sell, produce, or use alcohol
• Went into effect in January of 1920
• Prohibition= illegalized sale, production and transportation of liquor…use?
• Initially, crime and drunkenness decreased
• Volstead Act- Created a gov. bureau to monitor and patrol alcohol but was under funded and ineffective
Al Capone• Chicago
bootlegger/gangster
• Ran largest crime racket during Prohibition era
• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre- (1929) Bloody shootout between North and South Siders
• Arrested for tax evasion and died of Syphillis
• Speakeasies- hidden saloons/ nightclubs used to consume alcohol in
• Ex) offices, tenements, stores, tea rooms, etc.
• Bootleggers- Smugglers of alcohol
• Ex) Canada, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, etc.
•Enacted in 1933•Repealed Prohibition
•By late 1920’s only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition
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