1. Marissa Westcott & Jordan Warren
The dry era

2. The 18th Amendment
to the United States
Constitution
prohibited the

3. • the
temperance
movement
• political
pressure
•Alcohol-
related

4. • lasted 1920-1933
• The act took
effect January
17, 1920
• Took just over
a year for the
amendment to
be ratified by

5. •TOTAL CHAOS
•ALCOHOL-RELATED
CRIME SKYROCKETED
•MOBS/GANGSTERS
•BOOTLEGGING
•SPEAKEASIES

6. •Al Capone -
most famous
•Mobs and
gangsters
were heavily
influenced by
prohibition

7. •Illegal bars
underground
and in
establishmen
ts
•Required
secret

8. •Also called
rum-running
•The illegal
manufacturing,
transportation,
and sale of
alcoholic
beverages

9. •Empowered
women
•Gave America
a sense of
security
•People
believed that
•Increase in
crime activity
•Alcohol-
related
deaths
skyrocketed
•Corruption of

10. Was
prohibition a
success
or a
Failure?

11. Many Americans
considered the
increase in crime
and lawlessness
worse than the