Prohibition

Question 1

What were the main causes of prohibition?

Answer 1

Woman and religious groups such as the Anti-Saloon League believed alcohol was to blame for violence and poverty

Many beer companies were German so by drinking it during ww1 you betrayed your country

Question 2

When was prohibition ( the Volstead act) in place?

Answer 2

1919-1933

Question 3

What was moonshine?

Answer 3

Homemade alcohol that often had such a high alcohol content that it was poisonous

Question 4

What was bootlegging?

Answer 4

The smuggling of alcohol often through gangs and over the Canadian border

Question 5

What were speakeasies?

Answer 5

Illegal bars often disguised at shops

Question 6

How many speakeasies were there across the USA?

Answer 6

200,000

Question 7

What were the problems with enforcing prohibition?

Answer 7

Prohibition agents were very outnumbered and many became corrupted by taking bribes

Question 8

Name one famous prohibition officer?

Answer 8

Moe Smith

Question 9

Who was Al Capone?

Answer 9

A famous gangster who corrupted Chicago through his trade

Question 10

How many men did Al Capone employ?

Answer 10

1000

Question 11

How did Al Capone get away with it for so long?

Answer 11

He bribed police officers and politicians and threatened people who wouldn’t take bribes

Question 12

How many murders were there in four years?

Answer 12

227

Question 13

What and when was the st Valentine’s Day massacre?

Answer 13

1929 when Capones men killed seven members of his rival Moran’s gang but no one was arrested

Question 14

How much money was transferred from the brewing industry so gangsters during prohibition ?

Answer 14

$2000 million

Question 15

What were supporters of prohibition known as?

Answer 15

Dries

Question 16

What was prohibition?

Answer 16

Banned the production and sale of alcohol

Question 17

Where were the temperance movements the strongest?

Answer 17

In rural areas

Question 18

What were the arguments for prohibition?

Answer 18

3000 children were smothered a year by drunk parents
Dries claimed drink causes lawlessness
Drinking was said to encourage the spread of communism after Russian revolution
Saloons seen as dens of vice that destroyed family life

Question 19

How successful was prohibition?

Answer 19

On 1929 50 million litres of illegal alcohol were discovered and destroyed

Consumption levels of alcohol fell and didn’t reach pre 1914 levels until 1971

Izzy Einstein and moe smith were famous for being good

Question 20

How many prohibition agents was there?

Answer 20

4000, many of which were sacked for accepting bribes

Question 21

How much of a failure was prohibition?

Answer 21

Liquor trade just went under ground 
Many ordinary people were now criminals 
Moonshine was poor quality and often killed people (jack ass brandy caused internal bleeding)
Gangsters
Prohibition ended

Question 22

What abolished prohibition?

Answer 22

The 21st amendment in 1933