1. Roaring 20s: Attempts to Preserve Traditional Values

3. The movement to ban alcoholic drinks, known as the Temperance Movement, began in the early 19 th century. Temperance reformers saw alcoholic beverages as the root cause of poverty, crime, the break down of families, and sin. Protestant church groups and women reformers were especially active in the movement. Supported by Progressives, temperance especially appealed to small town America

4. Prohibition Prohibition – was a constitutional amendment that prohibited the use of alcohol, led by the Temperance Movement 18th Amendment 18th Amendment – forbade manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol. Volstead Act Volstead Act – defined “intoxicating liquors” to include both wine & beer. Provided penalties for the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages (but not for their consumption)

6. Gov’t hires only 1,500 agents to enforce Prohibition. Ordinary people defied the law, many making bathtub gin at home. Churches could still use wine for sacramental purposes and doctors could prescribe alcohol for medicinal reasons

8. Bootleggers – make and sell illegal alcohol Speakeasies – underground bars Organized crime and gangsters such as Al Capone grow by selling illegal alcohol. Prohibition, in many ways, led to the rise of organized crime as they filled the void and supplied a product that was illegal but the public wanted.