how far was prohibition successfully enforced in 1920s USA Flashcards
big question 8
SUCCESS = successes of prohibition
- death rates decreased
- arrests
- information campaigns
-> widespread approval
SUCCESS = how many arrests did Moe smith and izzy einstein make
4392 arrests
SUCCESS = 2 agents who made 4392 arrests =
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
SUCCESS = what did alcholo consumption deline by
declined by 30 % to 50 %
SUCCESS =
a) in 1921 how mnay arrests did federal agents maek
b) by 1929 what had this risen to
a) 34175
b) 66878
SUCCESS =
a) what year was there 34175 arrests
b) what year was there 66878 arrests
a) 1921
b) 1929
SUCCESS = what did the death rate due to alcohol decrease by
42 %
SUCCESS = death rate due to liver cirrhosis of the liver decreased by
70 %
SUCCESS = crime decreased by
54 %
SUCCESS = insanity decreased by
66 %
SUCCESS = arrests for public drunknness and disorderly conduct declined by how much between 1916 and 1922
50 %
SUCCESS = what years between did arrests for public drunknnedd and dirosderly conduct decline by
1916 adn 1922
SUCCESS = what did the government do
- ran information campaigns
-> prohibition gained widespread approval in some states
-» particularly rural mid west
FAILURES = failures of prohibition / why did prohibition end
- lacked support
- made normal americans lawbreakers
- corrupt agents
- organised crime and violence
- health problemns
- taxes
FAILURES = where was rpohibition never supported
cities
FAILURES = what did some people do to get alchol
- set up own stills to make moonshine
- or went to illegal bars called speakeasies
FAILURES = what were the illegal bars called
speakeasies
FAILURES = what were people prepared to do to drink
- break laws
- bribe officials
-> as millions of americans didn’t support the law and wanted to drink
FAILURES = where was prohibition never even introduced
Maryland
FAILURES = fact that showed demand for alcohol was huge
by 1925 there were more speakeasies than there had been legal saloons in 1919
FAILURES = george remus gave men what so that they would turn a blind eye to his activities
(gangsters would bribe authoritites)
he bribed him with $ 25 000 cufflinks
FAILURES = how many agents were corrupt
1:12
FAILURES = example of a corrupt mayor
bill thompson in Chicago
FAILURES = example of a gangster
capone,,, gangsters controlled the cities and supplied speakeasies with bootleg alcohol
FAILURES = how much did al capone make a year in chicago from selling illegal alcholo
$ 60 million a year
FAILURES = example of where gangsters would fight to protect their business
st valentines massacre
FAILURES = how many murders took place in chicago
300
FAILURES = how mnay gangland murders took place in cooks county Chicago in 2 years
130 with no arrests
FAILURES = how much did gangsters make durin ghte prohibition period from vice and criminal activities (thought to be)
$ 2 billion
FAILURES = how did prohibition cause health problems
- moonshine sold in speakeasies were dangerous
- cases of blindess and death caused by this alcohol
FAILURES = how did prohibition lose america vital taxes
- buyers, sellers and makers would all have to pay taxes which meant more grain could be sold and taxed and the transporters also could be taxed
- which was important after the depression (1929 to 1932)
FAILURES = what did the government realise was happening in rpohibiton
they were losing a large amount of tax by banning the alcohol industry
JUDGEMENT = about prohibition
- never achieved aim really as people liked to drink
- only enforced in certain areas
- too expensive
- difficult to enforce as lack of officers and corruption
- USA was to big to control the law
