Historian quotes: prohibition, 1920s and immigration Flashcards
Shannon identifies that ____ was an issues before prohibition
theme: prohibition
Shannon states that prohibition did not indirectly create organised crime. Rather, organised crime already existed and it simply moved into the liquor business
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As Shannon has identified, organised crime was an issue before and after prohibition.
Shannon identifies that prohibition stayed in society until 1933 because?
theme: prohibition
Shannon holds that prohibition stayed in place until 1933 due to the question of prohibition had become involved in social tensions between city and country, Catholic and Protestant, Negro and white.
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As Shannon has identified, prohibition stayed in place till 1933 due to tensions in society.
According to Shannon. what were the forces behind prohibition?
theme: prohibition
Forces behind prohibition: Protestantism, belief that the world could eliminate evil, black-white tension, rural distrust of the city and class conflict or the fear of class conflict
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Drivers of prohibition were beliefs in protestantism, purity of the nation, tensions in society and class conflict.
–> tensions