A complete summary of the prohibition that ocurred in the 1920's. By: Joaquin Diaz Walker, Antonia Flores Piran, Belén Irazusta and Juan Ignacio López Vargas.

1. Prohibition
By: Belén Irazusta, Juan Ignacio
López Vargas, Antonia Flores Piran
and Joaquín Diaz Walker

2. Why was Prohibition
introduced?
- Rural areas of the USA there was a big “temperance” movement
- They agreed not to drink alcohol and to get others to give up alcohol.
- Main movements: Anti-Saloon League and the Women`s Christians
Temperance Union.(they persuade the government to prohibit the sale of
alcohol)
- The campaign gathered pace, they became a national campaign to
prohibit alcohol. They became known as “dries”
- When USA went to the WW1, drinkers were accused of being unpatriotic
cowards
- Saloons were seen as dens of vice that destroyed family life
- the “Eighteenth Amendment”

4. How was prohibition enforced
- Prohibition lasted from1920 to 1933
- Levels of alcohol consumption fell by about 3o% in the early 1920s
- Prohibition gained widespread approval in rural areas but in urban areas
wasn’t popular
- Government arrested the offenders
- The most famous agents: Isadore Einstein and his deputy Moe Smith(diaz)

5. Supply and demand
- Work of agents
- Biggest drawback
- Bootleggers
- Al Capone-Speakeasy.
Al Capone`s view:”Prohibition is a business. All I do is supply a public demand”
- Illegal stills or speakeasy
- Izzy Einstein filed a report to his superiors on how easy it was to find alcohol
after arriving in a new city
Chicago: 21 minutes
Atlanta: 17 minutes
Pittsburg: 11 minutes
New Orleans: 35 seconds
- People made their own illegal whisk – moonshine. Alcohol frequently poisonous.
- Captain McCoy(Finest Scotch Whisky)

7. Corruption
- Prohibition led to massive corruption
- officers involved with the liquor trade
- Breweries were in the Prohibition era
- They bribed local government officers, agents and police
- When arrests were made, it was difficult to get convictions because more
senior officers or even judges were in the pay of the criminals
- One of twelve agents were dismissed for corruption.

8. Chicago and the gangsters
- Gangsters sale illegal alcohol.
- The bootlegger George Remus did well from the trade.
- Gangsters came from immigrant backgrounds
- Dan O`Banion, Pete and Vince Guizenberg and Lucky Luciano were some
of the most powerful gangster.
- George remus Lucky Luciano

9. - The Gangs fought viciously with each other to
control the liquor trade and also the
prostitution.
- They made use of new technology , especially
automobiles and the Thompson sub-machine
gun. It was very powerful and it could be
carried around and hidden under an overcoat.
- (in 1926 and 1927 ) A lot of deaths and not
one arrest.

10. - Gangsters operated all over the USA, but they were most associated with
Chicago
- Gangster boss Al Capone (Al Capone took his over and proved to be a
formidable gangland boss)
- Johnny Torio
- Al Capone built a huge network of corrupt officials among Chicago`s
police, local government, etc
- William Hale Thompson
- He killed two of his own men whom he suspected
- By 1929 Al Capone destroyed the power of the other Chicago gangs,
commenting 300 murders in the process.
- St Valentine`s Day Massacre.

11. Why was prohibition ended
- St Valentine`s Day (Gangsters graduated from murder to masacre)
- “The noble experiment”(It failed)
It had made Usa lawless, Police corrupt, and gangsters powerful and rich
-1930 depression
-Prohibition repealed
Franking D Rosevelt

12. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!
By,
Antonia Flores Piran
Juani Lopez Vargas
Belen Irazusta
and
Joaquin Diaz Walker