Alcohol prohibition in the United States around the 1920

1. Prohibition of Alcohol

2. America goes dry!
• Jan. 16, 1919
• President Woodrow Wilson
(1913-1921)
• Jan 29, 1919, the 18th
Amendment achieved the
necessary three-fourths majority
of state ratification
• 1920

3. Origins
• Concerned citizens begun warning nearly 100 years earlier
• 1826 American Temperance Society founded
• WCTU
• 1893 anti-Saloon League

5. Enforcing Prohibition
• The law gave exactly
one year to get rid of the
remaining alcohol

8. "Intoxicating liquors"
it did not define "intoxicating liquors" or provide penalties. It
granted both the federal government and the states the
power to enforce the ban by "appropriate legislation."

9. Problems Arise
• Deaths in NY
• 1919-20: aprox. 70
• 1926: aprox. 700

10. Organized Crime
• Demand is higher than ever
• Illegal producers and benders of alcohol were known as
bootleggers. They would make homemade liquor however
they could,
• Off-the-graph prices
• Control of the market

11. Rum Runs
• Americans got tired of
"bath tub" alcohol
• Alcohol traffic
A. Canada
• Navy & Coast Guard vs.
Rum Runner boats

12. Mafia
• Bribes
• "Turfs"
• Corruption in politics
and law enforcement

14. Prohibition Ends
• 12/5/1933
• failing fully to enforce
sobriety and costing
billions
• 21st Amendment to the
Constitution was passed
and ratified, ending
national Prohibition.
• Mississippi, the last dry
state in the Union, ended
Prohibition in 1966.

16. Started
• Clara Barton
• and acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in
Washington, D.C. on May 21, 188
• first congressional charter in 1900
• WWI
• 107 - 20mil 11mil
• influenza epidemic of 1918.