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• Please turn your chair so you have your back to your partner • One of you will have a source – one of you will recreate the source – with the second one describing it!

What can you infer from the source about Prohibition?

Prohibition: The Simpsons! What is Prohibition: Why was prohibition introduced? : What were the effects of prohibition? :

What was ‘Prohibition’? • A law called the Volstead Act introduced in the USA in January 1920. • It banned the manufacture, sale and transport of alcohol. • The federal government had the power to enforce this law. • It theory the USA became ‘dry’. • It has since become known as the ‘noble experiment’.

Why was prohibition introduced? 1. 2. 3. 4. It already existed in many states Moral reasons Campaigners like the Anti-Saloon League of America The First World War

What were the effects of prohibition? 1. 2. 3. 4. Speakeasies Moonshine Smuggling Organised crime

Speakeasies • Secret saloon bars opened up in cellars and back rooms. • They had names like the ‘Dizzy Club’ and drinkers had to give a password or knock at the door in code to be let in. • Speakeasies sold ‘bootleg’ alcohol, smuggled into America from abroad. • Before Prohibition there were 15, 000 bars in New York. By 1926 there were 30, 000 speakeasies!

Moonshine • A spirit made secretly in home made stills. • Several hundred people a year died from this during the 1920 s. • In 1929 it is estimated that 700 million gallons of beer were produced in American homes.

‘Bootleggers’ • Smugglers called ‘Bootleggers’ made thousands of dollars bringing in illegal alcohol to America. • America has thousands of miles of frontiers so it proved easy. • Famous smugglers like William Mc. Coy made fortunes by bringing alcohol from the West Indies and Canada.

Organised Crime • The enormous profits to be made attracted gangsters who started to take control of many cities. • They bribed the police, judges and politicians. • They controlled the speakeasies and the distilleries, and ruthlessly exterminated their rivals.

Al Capone • By 1927 he was earning some $60 million a year from bootlegging. • His gang was like a private army. He had 700 men under his control. • He was responsible for over 500 murders. • On 14 th February 1929, Capone’s men dressed as police officers murdered 7 members of a rival gang. This became known as the ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre. ’

Which were the most significant effect of prohibition? A. Speakeasies B. Moonshine C. Smuggling D. Organised crime

What is the link between prohibition and organised crime?

Prohibition News Report Produce a news report about 1920 s Prohibition. Outline: What Prohibition is. Why it was introduced. The Effects of Prohibition Why it failed.