1920s prohibition

Question 1

Why prohibition

Answer 1

Prohibition was the result of generations of effort by temperance workers to close bars and taverns, which were the source of much drunkenness and misery in an age before social welfare existed.

Termperance workers =-
criticize alcohol intoxication or promote complete abstinence from alcohol (teetotalism), and its leaders emphasize alcohol’s negative effects on people’s health, personalities and family lives.

Question 2

What was prohibition

Answer 2

During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene.

Question 3

who were pivotal in bringing about the national prohibition in the US and canada and why

Answer 3

The womens Christian Temperance Union, because they believed it would protect families and children from the effects of abuse of alcohol

Question 4

what was the outcome of the prohibition/ aftermath

Answer 4

• Alcohol became more dangerous to consume
• organized crime blossomed;
• courts and prisons systems became overloaded;
• endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred.

Question 5

What was one of the side effects of prohibition

Answer 5

Alcohol poisoning, bootleg alcohol was not produced under government supervision

Question 6

how long did prohibition last

Answer 6

2 years (1918-1920)

Question 7

What is rum-running?

Answer 7

Smuggling alcohol over country borders