Do Now: Should the government be responsible for regulating the public’s health?

• If so, how?

• Or, why not?

History of Prohibition • became political force in mid 1800s

• • o “For God, Home and Native Land.” o Carry Nation

• o Founded in 1895 • Worked through local Methodist and Baptist Churches • Raised money, endorsed candidates, and lobbied for laws banning liquor on the local level • 1913-

Eighteenth Amendment • How is an amendment ratified? o • January 1920- Eighteenth amendment o

Causes of Prohibition • • • • During World War I, native-born Americans developed a hostility to German- American brewers and toward immigrant groups that used alcohol.

Billy Sunday "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent."

Rumrunners, Moonshiners, and Bootleggers Video Questions

A Noble Experiment

1. When did national prohibition begin?

2. What did moonshiners do to produce more but poorer quality ?

3. Why was corruption rampant among prohibition agents?

4. Only _____% of the ______million gallons of illegal liquor was apprehended every year.

5. What is a blind pig?

6. How did avoid detection?

7. How was bad booze, or monkey rum, altered?

8. In 1927, ______% of booze contained poisons.

Effects of Prohibition

1. o 2. Disrespect for the law developed. o o Under-funded o Exceptions: Sacramental wine, medicinal whiskey and home-brewed cidar of up to .5% alcohol

Bureau of Prohibition • AKA Prohibition Unit • Established in 1920 as a unit of the • 1927- • Agents= “prohis” o o Eliot Ness • Following the repeal it became part of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearm unit of the Dept. of the Treasury (ATF)

Effects of Prohibition 3. 4. Criminals found a new source of income. 5.

______• • Easier to transport to market than sacks of grain or bushels of fruit • Continued after Prohibition ended to avoid paying tax on it • Moonshiners began outfitting their cars with fast engines to outrun the federal agents o

Speakeasies • • (penthouses, cellars, office buildings, rooming houses, tenements, hardware stores etc.) o o Had to present a card or use a password • NYC (15,000 Saloonsà 32,000 speakeasies) Bootleggers • Bootleggers- • Smuggling liquor over land

• Canada

Rum- Runners • • West Indies and Cuba • Before prohibition, 12,000 gallons were exported from Nassau Bahamas every year • • William McCoy- o • Rum-Runners vs. Coast Guard

Organized Crime • Purple Gang- Detroit • - • Killed off competition • Network of 10,000 speakeasies • • •

21st Amendment • Prohibition repealed in 1933 by the 21st amendment •

Closure: Post-Assessment • Explain how prohibition came to be viewed as a problem rather than a solution.