alcohol prohibition

Question 1

Temperance movement

Answer 1

a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages

Question 2

Frances Willard (WCTU)

Answer 2

Womans Christian temperance Union was an international temperance origanization devoted to social reform
-WCTU president (FW) supported women’s suffrage for home protection and drafted a polygon petition for int’l drug control

Question 3

carrie hatchet nation & saloons

Answer 3

-carrie nation left smashed up saloons in cities of Kansas w/ a hatchet
-arrested 30 times & gained media publicity & angry opposition from drinkers and saloons keepers

Question 4

anti-saloon league

Answer 4

-supported by urban catholitchs, jews, and German lutherans (working class)
-1917, wheeler successfully lobbied for congressional support of 18th amendment
-industrialists like for & Carnegie saw alcohol as a threat to productivity
-organized voters and strong armed lelgistaltors to support prohibition laws

Question 5

18th amendmentt

Answer 5

ratified in 1919 and took effect in 1920 , established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States

Question 6

the volstead act 1919

Answer 6

-banned distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages above 1% ABV
-provided enforcement measures for prohibition
-consumers exploited loopholes in volstead act to obtain alcohol legally

Question 7

bureau of prohibition

Answer 7

-to stop the sale and consumption of alcohol
-agents would be tasked with eliminating illegal bootlegging rings

Question 8

bootlegging

Answer 8

-illegal distillers, moonshiners, and bootleggers made enormous profits
-bootlegging “bribery & racketeering flourished under prohibition
-Attorney George remus of Cincinnati built a bootlegging empire using legal loopholes and bribery of federal officers
-Roy Olmsted of Seattle (the good bootlegger) bribed police along pacific NW

Question 9

Valentine’s Day massacre 1929

Answer 9

7 members of George bugs bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside a garage

Question 10

speakeasies

Answer 10

-thousands of speakeasies opened in cities across the country
-used sever entrances, passwords, and posed as private clubs requiring a membership fee
-provided venues for jazz musicians , dancers, and a new generation of pleasure seekers

Question 11

flappers

Answer 11

-a fashionable form of new woman wore short skirts and makeup, smoked in public, drank with the men at speakeasies
-the new woman was better educated , more assertive, free-spirited, and expressive of sexuality
-young women broke from the moralistic strictures of their victorian era mother

Question 12

lois “lipstick” long

Answer 12

New Yorker columnist Lois lipstick long epitomized the flapper lifestyle and mentality

Question 13

how did prohibition changed American drinking culture

Answer 13

prohibition changed American drinking culture by creating loopholes to try and drink. They began more sneaky with the ways they could drink. Speakeasies began to develop across the country for a newer generation of music, dancers, and pleasure seekers.

Question 14

how did World War I affect popular attitudes about alcohol in the United States?

Answer 14

World War 1 affected popular attitudes about alcohol in the United States by creating an increased prejudice against Germans. It allowed Prohibitionists to be opposed to Germans since they owned brewers. it silenced wealthy German brewers

Question 15

what relationship did prohibition have with crime and corruption?

Answer 15

prohibition and crime/corruption had a sort of cause-and-effect relationship. For example, the increase in putting a stop to alcohol led to crime/ corruption with public officials and citizens becoming bootleggers and creating sneaky hideouts to drink or bribe people.

Question 16

which populations comprised the majority of dries supporters vs wets?

Answer 16

The south and midwest comprised the majority of dries versus wets.

Question 17

what ideas and beliefs motivated the temperance movement? who were some prominent figures in this movement and what methods did they use to reduce alcohol consumption

Answer 17

Ideas and beliefs such as the concern for heavy drinkers motivated the temperance movement t due to it hurting families and the economy. Heavy drinkers would abandon God, be violent, and spend family finances at saloons. Some prominent figures in this movement were Carrie Nation and Frances Willard. Methods they used to reduce alcohol consumption by taking action by destroying saloons and creating voices for women.