ProhibitionUSII.6b

Digital Resources

1920”s, Prohibition• Start at the beginning

• End at 2:30

2:30-4:00 – Do Not Show (Violence & Organized Crime)

“Dawn of the 1920’s”: Optimism, Skyscrapers, Movement

to Cities, Wall Street, Stocks & Tycoons• Restart at 4:05

• End at 9:00

The Century: America’s Time

Boom to Bust: 1 of 3

America: The Story of

Us

• Start at 33:12 – End at 39:00– Prohibition, 18th Amendment, Bootleggers/Rum Runners, Gangsters/Organized Crime/Al

Capone

• 39:00 - 40:28 – DO NOT SHOW!!! – Graphic Reenactment and photographs of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

• Restart at 40:29 – End of Show– Balistic Forensics, Capone’s Arrest, End of Prohibition, 21st Amendment

“Boom”

REVIEW:

18th Amendment

1. With the _______________________, progressives tried to change and manage morality in America by prohibiting alcohol in America.

2. In 1919, they were successful with the passage of the ____ Amendment which made it illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell alcoholic beverages.

3. Prohibition – The passing of laws to _________ the making or selling of alcohol.

Temperance Movement

prohibit

18th

Results of Prohibition4. ____________ were

underground clubs created as

place for people to drink

alcoholic beverages.

Cotton Club, Harlem NYC; Cab Calloway

Speakeasies What to see an

actual NYC

underground bar?

Click on the movie

Speakeasies cont…

• New York Time:

Speakeasy Slideshow

– http://nyti.ms/1xMit3z

Results of Prohibition

5. ___________ made and

smuggled alcohol illegally

and promoted __________

_______ (gangs).

Bootleggers

Arrested & shamed

Bootleggers in a Detroit

Police Station.

Organized

Crime

Results of Prohibition6. Prohibition was _________ by the

_____ Amendment to the

Constitution of the United States.

repealed

21st

Vintage Newsreel: End of

Prohibition

Reasons why Prohibition

Failed…The United States was founded on the idea the

people are free and that all Americans have the right to

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So, by trying to

control the moral behavior of Americans, preventing

them to consume alcohol, the government was going

against the basic foundations of our democracy.

Plus, with the 18th Amendment, the government lost a

whole lot of money! If the sale of alcohol was illegal,

then the government couldn’t collect sales tax on alcohol.

That was a significant amount of money for the government to lose!

EXTENSION:

Extension Questions:

1.Why did Prohibition fail?

2.Did Prohibition have a negative effect on

America’s economy?

1.Who benefited from the repeal of Prohibition?