Prohibition Flashcards
1
Q
1919 Amendment (18th)
A
Banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol
2
Q
Causes
A
- temperance movement-limit drinking
- Religious orgs: Women’s Christian Temperance Union-evils and sins of alcohol
Women and children were victims of domestic abuse
Business leaders: drunk and impaired slowed work
Limit consumption=a better family
3
Q
Failed
A
Nearly impossible to enforce.
4
Q
Speakeasy
A
sold illegal alcohol
5
Q
Bootleg
A
unlawfully made, sold, or transported alcohol
6
Q
bootleggers
A
sold alcohol
7
Q
bathtub
A
homemade gin
8
Q
Increase in organized crime
A
Al capone in Chicago
9
Q
21 amendment
A
December 5, 1933 repealed the 18th.
