History Unit 2: Prohibition In Canada

Question 1

How did Canadians feel about alcohol

Answer 1

• start of 20s; Canadians field alcohol was causing negativity
• seen as taking away from the war effort. Ex. Grain was used for ancho in stead of food for soldiers
• groups; temperance movement worked to ban alcohol
• by the end of World War One all Canadian province except Quebec prohibited the sale of alcohol; bars and tavern shut down

Question 2

What were the laws of alcohol

Answer 2

• different from province to province; in general closed legal drinking establishments, forbade the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol outside ones home
• purchase through industrial, scientific, mechanical, artistic, sacramental and medical uses
• properly licence brewer and distillers can sell alcohol outside of province

Question 3

What is bootlegging

Answer 3

• illegal sale/ selling of alcohol

- > illegal establishment known as speakeasies and blind pigs, sprang across the country

Question 4

What did people do to get there alcohol

Answer 4

• many people made home liquor called moonshine or hooch
• states prohibition laws even more restrictive/ suppose to be really dry
• liquor legally produced in or imported into Canada was smuggled into the us
• controlled by crime figures like AL Capone and Canadian equivalent Rocoo Perri
• activities often included bribes, extortion, and violence

Question 5

How did the prohibition stop

Answer 5

• prohibition did reduce some social problems, it was unpopular and difficult to enforce
• criminals getting rich while government lost a lot of tax revenue
• eventually prohibition was repealed

Question 6

What is the advantages of prohibition in Canada

Answer 6

Cases of domestic violence fell

Question 7

Who is the u.s treasury officer that tried to take down al Capone

Answer 7

Elliot ness