Prohibition
Era
History
Time Line
Organized
Crime
Review /Quiz
StAIR Info
Assignment
The Road to Prohibition
• Many people felt that alcohol was the root of
many of societies problems.
– Problems were beating their wives and children
and too much money being spent on alcohol.
– So, they felt that if you get rid of alcohol, then
many of society’s problems would go away.
– Women were part of the big push for prohibition
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th
18
Amendment
• Early in 1919, Congress 18th Amendment
which made the manufacture, sale, and
transportation of alcohol illegal.
• This meant that you could no longer buy, sell
or make alcohol legally in the U.S.
• The question that you must ask yourself is,
would making alcohol illegal actually make
people stop drinking?
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Fighting illegal alcohol
Volstead Act:
• Created the Prohibition Bureau.
• Federal agency whose job was to enforce
the 18th amendment.
• Primary failed because of high levels of
corruption and because it was
undermanned and underfunded.
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Police Corruption
• Illegal alcohol businesses thrived as a result of all
the corruption in police departments.
• In certain precincts in Chicago, all police from beat
cops to the commander were bribed.
• Police were not paid very well at that time
– Bribes were for a simple warning phone call or ignoring
the sale of alcohol at a bar or restaurant.
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Speakeasy Society
• Speakeasy = Underground club or restaurant
where illegal alcohol is sold
– It could be simple like the back room of a
restaurant
– Or more elaborate like a full fledge nightclub with
live music and dancing including dinner.
• They were left alone as long as they paid off the police.
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st
21
Amendment
• Canceled the 18th amendment and ended prohibition.
• The 1920’s showed that prohibition did not work.
– Alcohol was still sold and it brought on a new wave
of violence associated with organized crime.
• As the Great Depression began, support for prohibition
was kept going down.
– Some people felt that if you legalized it you could tax
it and the government would have more money.
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Prohibition Video
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Review Question
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What agency, law, or amendment created
the Prohibition Bureau?
19th Amendment
Capone act
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
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Review Question
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What was the name of underground clubs
that sold illegal alcohol during
prohibition?
Backroom Clubs
Speakeasies
Saloons
Beer Saloons
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and then click the timeline tab on the main page to continue the presentation.
Prohibition Timeline
1851 – First
Prohibition law is
passed in Maine
1893 = AntiSaloon league is
formed
1/16/1919 – 18th
Amendment is
passed which
made Alcohol
consumption is
how illegal
1850
1920’s – Gangsters
like Al Capone begin
to make large sums
of money on illegal
alcohol
1933
1869 – Prohibition
party is founded
12/5/19133 – 21st
Amendment is
passed – Alcohol
once again
becomes legal
1917 - U.S. Senate passes
Volstead Act which was the
first step in passing the 18th
Amendment
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1920 – Volstead
Act sets up
Prohibition
Bureau to stop
illegal alcohol
Timeline Question
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Who passed the Volstead Act?
Senate
President
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
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Timeline Question
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• The first prohibition law was passed
in what state?
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Vermont
Massachusetts
New York
Maine
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question and move on to Organized Crime tab on the main page.
Alphonse Capone
• Capone began his rise in the
Colosimo Crime Family of Chicago.
• In 1924, he became boss and built
a 60 million a year empire
through violence and corruption.
• Prohibition agents tried to convict
him but were unsuccessful.
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The Downfall of Al Capone
• Capone was connected to many murders
and ran an illegal alcohol empire
– He avoided conviction through
intimidation, violence and bribery.
• Capone would go to jail for tax evasion.
– Found guilty of five counts of tax
evasion and failing to file tax returns
• He was sentenced to 11 years and served
part of it at Alcatraz penitentiary.
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The Mafia and Prohibition
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More Gangsters
Johnny Torrio – Al Capone’s mentor. He killed James
Colosimo and took over his criminal empire in early 1920.
He led the family to great fortune but retired in 1924.
Bugs Moran – Head of a North Chicago gang and rival of Al
Capone. It was Moran’s men who were killed at the
famous Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. His power
disappeared with the end of prohibition.
Lucky Luciano – Considered the father of modern organized
crime for splitting New York City into five different mafia
families and set up the first commission of all five families.
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Review of Organized Crime
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Al Capone was convicted and sentence to 11
years in prison for which crime.
Murder
Selling illegal alcohol
Bribes
Tax evasion
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Review of Organized Crime
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Who was Al Capone’s Chicago rival?
Johnny Torrio
Bugs Moran
Lucky Luciano
Big Bill Thompson
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the top left and move on to the review/quiz tab on the main page.
Content Review
Which amendment ended prohibition and once again
made alcohol legal in the U.S.?
21st
5th
18th
19th
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correct answer by clicking on it. Then move on to the next question.
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Correct! During the Great
Depression, support for
prohibition fell and the 21st
amendment made alcohol legal
once again.
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Content Review
The Prohibition Bureau primarily failed because
of high levels of corruption and
Each state had its own
prohibition bureau
It was undermanned and
underfunded
As a result of bad
leadership
Because Bugs Moran was
in charge
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the correct answer by clicking on it. Then move on to the next question.
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Correct! Illegal alcohol was
sold all over the country and
they needed more money and
agents to be able to efficiently
fight it.
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question.
Content Review
How did Al Capone get his $60 million
a year empire?
Hard work and
perseverance
Bought it from Johnny
Torrio
Working with police to put his
competitors out of business
Violence and corruption
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the correct answer by clicking on it. Then move on to the next question.
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Correct! Al Capone had a good public
image because he donated money to
charities and treated people well but
he was ruthless in business. He did not
have a problem killing any of his
competitors if it helped grow his
empire. He bribed police, judges,
prosecutors, and juries to avoid being
convicted.
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Content Review
Who was considered the father of modern
Organized Crime?
Lucky Luciano
Al Capone
Bugs Moran
Johnny Torrio
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the correct answer by clicking on it. Then move on to the next question.
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Correct! Lucky Luciano organized a system
of five different crime families running
New York City. Then he created a
commission where the heads of these five
families could meet together for business
or settle disagreements.
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move on to the quiz.
Prohibition Quiz
• Now that you have gone through several
Review questions, lets find out how many of
those same questions you can answer.
• No more looking back at the information.
• Go to the next slide and answer the following
questions and email them to me.
Prohibition Quiz
True/False Questions: Next to each question, type True or False as your answer.
1. __________ - The 18th amendment officially repealed prohibition and made alcohol
legal once again.
2. __________ - Al Capone made his alcohol empire through violence and corruption.
3. __________ - Johnny Torrio was Al Capone’s mentor.
4. __________ - Speakeasies were factories where alcohol was illegal produced for
gangsters like Al Capone.
5. __________ - The prohibition movement was rooted on the idea that alcohol was the
root of many of societies problems.
6. __________ - The Volstead Act allowed authorities to put Al Capone in jail for not
paying his taxes.
7. __________ - The Prohibition Bureau failed because of corruption and because it was
undermanned and underfunded.
8. __________ - Lucky Luciano was Al Capone’s rival in Chicago.
9. __________ - During prohibition, alcohol was mostly sold in hidden back rooms
where the police could find them.
10. __________ - Police corruption played a very little role in rise of organized crime in
illegal alcohol.
Copy and paste your questions/answers and email them to [email protected]
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with your quiz. Make sure you
email me the quiz with your
name on it and period.
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prohibition.
StAIR Information
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Focus of StAIR
– This StAIR will focus on the prohibition era in United States during the 1920s. It will focus on how
the 18th amendment led to criminals finding a new source of income, organized crime growing, and
a rise in corruption in city/state politics.
Unit of study
– Postwar WWI America
Standards
– 11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural
developments of the 1920s.
• 3. Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead
Act (Prohibition).
Objectives
– SWBAT (Student will be able to)
• Know what led the U.S. to pass the 18th amendment (prohibition).
• Understand what18th amendment was and how it changed American society in the 1920s.
• Recite all the new problems that resulted from prohibition.
• Discuss what led to the end of prohibition with the passing of the 21st amendment.
• Citations of images
• Citations for sources
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
• One of the worst examples of
violence associated with
prohibition happened on
2/14/1929 when Al Capone’s men
executed 7 members of Bugs
Moran’s North Chicago gang.
• Two of Capone’s men were
dressed as police officers and had
Moran’s men line up against the
wall.
• Then Capone’s men opened fire
with Tommy machine guns and
tore the bodies up leaving some
unrecognizable.
Prohibition Assignment
• Create an Outline of Chapter 13, Section one.
– Read the section about prohibition (Ch.13, Sect. 1)
– Use your outline format to create your outline
– Due ________________
– If you do not have your outline format with you or
you lost it, just click on the link below and you can
get it online.
• Outline format
Citations of Images
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http://www.barossa.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/images/Alcohol_Dry_Are
a_Sign.jpg
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http://www.weedist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/NORMLRemember-Prohibition.jpg
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http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users12/k0rn/default/al-capone-maffiafamily--large-msg-116067695022.jpg
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The rest of the images are linked to their source
Instructions for StAIR
• As you go through this StAIR, you will be learning
about the prohibition era in the U.S.
• Start on the top right with the “History” tab and
begin reading some information on prohibition.
• Follow the directions at the bottom of each slide.
• Eventually go will go through all of the tabs on the
main page. Make sure you go in order.
Sources
• "Prohibition Era Timeline." About.com American History. N.p., n.d. Web.
13 Aug. 2012.
<http://americanhistory.about.com/od/prohibitionera/a/prohibition.htm>
• "Al Capone." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 08 June 2012. Web. 13
Aug. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone>.
• Buchanan, Edna. "LUCKY LUCIANO: Criminal Mastermind." Time Magazine
U.S. Time Magazine U.S., 07 Dec. 1998. Web. 13 Aug. 2012.
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989779,00.html>.
• "George "Bugs" Moran." George "Bugs" Moran. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Aug.
2012. <http://www.gambino.com/bio/bugsmoran.htm>.
• Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century.
Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
• The majority of information used for the slides came from memory. I
learned some in my University history classes and the rest from reading
of the topic over several years. So in order to give some sources, I went
online and into my textbook to find some sources that also had the
information that I used.