03: Prohabition

Question 1

In what year did Prohibition start?

Answer 1

1920

Question 2

When was Prohibition repealed?

Answer 2

1933

Question 3

What was the law to prohibit the manufacturing, selling, or transportation of liquors?

Answer 3

Volstead Act

Question 4

What were the religious motives for the Volstead Act?

Answer 4

• Protestants + Puritans believed alcohol was a sin
• Temperance Movement set up

Question 5

Why were some alocholists seen as unpatriotic cowards?

Answer 5

Most breweries were run German immigrants

Question 6

Why was the Anti-Saloon League important in the Volstead Act?

Answer 6

As they were the most successful group in putting pressure on the government to ban alcohol

• They lobbied politicians + did petitions

Question 7

How was the Volstead Act successful?

Answer 7

Alcohol consumption decreased by 30%

Men went back to their roles, alcoholism was now more seen as an immoral act

Question 8

In what ways was the Volstead Act unsuccessful?

Answer 8

• Led to organised crimes
• Led to corruption

Question 9

How did the Volstead Act lead to corruption? Give examples

Answer 9

• William Thompson - Chicago mayor became an ally of Al Capone
• Police + Judges bribed to look over (given that most police earned only $2000 yearly)
• by 1927, 130 murders and **no arrests **

Question 10

How did the Volstead Act lead to organised crimes?

Answer 10

• by 1927, 130 murders and no arrests
• Alcohol smuggled in from Canada
• Poisonous liquors made
• St. Valentines Day Massacre

Question 11

What year was the St. Valentines Day Massacre? Why was it so significant?

Answer 11

1929 - climax between gang rivalry (7 members of Moran’s gang killed)

The brutality and media attention it gained led to Volstead Act being repealed 4 years later in 1933