Prohibitionorganiz ed crime Kenyonn Matt Danielle Organized Crime

Prohibition/organiz ed crime Kenyonn, Matt, Danielle

Organized Crime

Organized Crime • Prohibition disrespected the law and also organized crime in mostly every major city. Al Capone is a gangster whose empire netted over $60 million a year. • Capone was a mobster that killed off any competition in his way of business.

Organized Crime • In the 1920’s headlines reported 522 gang related killings made by none other than Al Capone. • A writer in 1940 named Herbert Asbury recalled the Capone era in Chicago. Herbert Asbury

Organized Crime • In the mid-1920’s only 19% of Americans supported prohibition. • The rest of the people who did not support prohibition and wanted it changed or repealed believed that it caused more concern than the initial problem. • Rural Protestant Americans defended a law that gave more power to moral values. • 1 st photograph: test vote on prohibition • 2 nd photograph: prohibition vote counted

Organized Crime • The 18 th Amendment remained in demand until 1933, when it was repealed by the 21 st Amendment. • Miss Elizabeth Thompson a member of the crusaders formed to overthrow prohibition

Speakeasies and speakeasy: a place where alcoholic drinks were sold illegally in Bootleggers the U. S. during the 1920 s (Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)

Speakeasies and Bootleggers • Speakeasies were hidden saloons and nightclubs underground • They spoke quietly or “easily” inside to avoid detection. • Penthouse, cellars, office, rooming houses, tenements, hardware stores, and tearooms • The mayflower, this was a speakeasies that offered both liquor and gambling

Speakeasies and Bootleggers • Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes, prescriptions for alcohol and sales of sacramental wine (intended for church services) skyrocketed • People bought liquor from bootleggers who were smugglers who carried liquor in the legs of boots • Women hiding a flask in her Russian boot

Speakeasies and Bootleggers • Bootleggers smuggled liquor in from Canada, Cuba, in the west indies • They were some of the most popular people at this time , they were also the only source that clubs could. • Bootleggers got in to many car wrecks killing them and other people

Prohibition the period of time from 1920 to 1933 in the U. S. when it was illegal to make or sell alcohol (Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary)

Prohibition • the eighteenth amendment launched an era known as prohibition which banned alcohol • reformers had long considered liquor a prime cause of corruption and other serious social problems • This was an anti-prohibion group

Prohibition • support for prohibition came from large populations of native born protestants from rural south and west • the church-affiliated anti-saloon lead the drive to pass the prohibition amendment • illustration that humorously illustrates the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Christian Temperance Union