APUSH Chapter 25 Part 3 Flashcards
What was prohibition also called
The noble experiment
What did people believe alcohol lead to
Increased crime
Wife/child abuse
Accidents at work
Loss of productivity
When was the temperance movement and who supported it
1840s
Women and church group
18th Amendment
Outlaws production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquor”
Allows for medicinal use
The Volstead Act
1919
Refines 18th Amendment
Defines “intoxicating liquor” as above 0.5% alcohol
Sets penalties
Support from south and west
Opposition east (immigrants, returning soldiers)
Effects of prohibition
Less alcohol consumed than before
Increased organized crime
Death rates drop gang violence increases
Speakeasies
Secret saloons and night clubs that continue with selling alcohol
Secret entrances
Trapdoors
Passwords
Bootleggers
Continued to manufacture alcohol or smuggled it in from other countries Canadian border Harbors also known as rumrummers Police and political corruption
Organized crime
Crime groups compete for a share of illegal liquor sales
Often violent
Kill competition
Gangs sprout up across us
Al Capone
Chicago bootlegger St Valentine's Day Massacre Accrues millions from illegal liquor Finally caught by the untouchables Jailed for tax evasion
When does what amendment repeal the 18th amendment
21st
1933
Women in the 1920s attitude
Following WWI
attitude “eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die”
Live for today
This included increases in
Smoking
Drinking
Casual dating
Sexual activity
Flappers -an attitude and fashion
Culture and lifestyle of 1920s women More liberated Work, automobile, birth control Wat the same freedoms as men Begin to flaunt sexuality (petting, dancing to jazz)
Flapper fashion
Short dresses, bobbed hair, makeup, red lipstick, pearls, one piece bathing suits
The double standard
Older generations do not approve of the flappers
Women were expected to maintain older values, men weren’t
