2. Before the 1920’s 51.2% of
Americans lived in
communities with
populations of 2,500 to
more than 1 million.
Then America changed
drastically between 1922
and 1924.
A lot of people migrated
to cites. Nearly 2million
people left their farms
and towns each year.
The small rural towns
began to loose their hold
on the American mind as
the cities rose to
prominence.
3. “Cities were the place to
be, not to get away from”
Every night people
crowded into ornate
movie theaters and
vaudeville houses offering
a live variety of shows.
The city was a world of
competition and change.
Cities tolerated
drinking, gambling and
dating. Back In towns
these were considered
shocking and sinful.
4. Considered alcohol
prime consideration
of corruption.
Thought that drinking
led to crime, wife and
child abuse, accidents
on the jobs and other
serious social
problems.
People considered
drinking a sin.
Support of prohibition
came largely from the
rural south and west.
5. Government failed
to budget enough
money to enforce
the law.
There wasn’t
enough police
officers to enforce
the law. this led to
many crimes.
Criminals bribed
police officers into
letting them break
the law.
6. Prohibition leads to
crime, cause they
banned alcohol.
Made illegal saloons
were they wood sell
the illegal alcohol.
Hidden saloons or
night clubs were
known ass speak
easies.
There was a password
that you need it to
know in order to get
into the speakeasies.
7. Were illegal underground
night clubs or saloons where
alcohol was sold illegally.
They were called
speakeasies, cause once
inside people had to talk
quietly or “easily” to avoid
being detected.
Speak easies could be found
everywhere, in
penthouses, cellars, office
buildings, roaming
houses, tenements, hardware
stores and tea rooms.
Inside you would find a mix
of fashionable middle class
and upper middle class men
and women.
8. By age 26 Al Capone headed a
criminal empire in Chicago. He
controlled his empire through
the use of bribes and violence.
1925 to 1931 Capone
bootlegged whiskey from
Canada and had control of
10,000 speakeasies and he also
operated illegal breweries in
Chicago.
1927 Al Capone or “Big Fellow”
as he liked to be called, was
worth $10million
Later in 1931 the big gangster
was arrested for tax evasion.
He was put in jail and later put
in liberty. He died when he was
48.
9. The 21st amendment
annulled the 18th
amendment.
The 21st amendment
was passed by
Congress on February
20, 1933.
The 21st amendment
allowed the states to
choose and set their
own alcohol laws.
21st allowed drinking
in all states according
to their states laws.