1. Don’t drink that; It’s Illegal!
Prohibition & Temperance in the 1920’s
Mr. Jon Creamer
ED639
Unit: The Roaring 20’s
Lesson: Temperance and Prohibition
Grade 10

2. OBJECTIVES
The tenth grade students will learn the importance of the passage of the 18th amendment and the temperance movement that pushed for it.
The tenth grade students will practice critical thinking skills applied to looking at political cartoons and the meanings behind them.
The students will understand the timeline of the beginning of a women’s movement to be heard beginning with temperance and going through to their passage of Women’s Suffrage.
Finally the tenth grade students will gain some skill at understanding the thought behind some political cartoons.

3. Materials Needed Students Will Need: LCD Projector for Presentation
Student THINKERS
Students Will Need:
Their Notebooks
Pencil/Pen
Sheet of Paper for Quiz.
Their THINKING CAPS

4. -Between January 1920 and April 1933 the 18th Amendment was in effect.
-Made it illegal to import, export, transport, sell or manufacture intoxicating liquor.
-.05 so that sacramental wine and medicinal alcohol could be used.
-Commonly referred to as the Volstead Act, in honor of Andrew J. Volstead, the congressman who authored it.

5. Temperance

6. Rise of the Prohibition Party
Separate from Dems or GOP
Sole platform was to push National Prohibition
Supported Women’s Suffrage
Sold themselves as a multi-party organization, meaning you could be Dem or GOP AND a Prohibitionist member.

7. Other Movements & People
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
-Frances Willard –help found Prohibition Party and Leader of WCTU. Died in 1898 and Carry Nation helped take over.
-Ladies were called to action to protest everywhere!

8. Carry A. Nation (Ole Battle-Ax)
Joined WCTU and began her crusade.
Got her state of Kansas to be dry by 1880.
1900 says that God told her to save Kansas from the bootleggers.
Smashed her first saloon June 1, 1900.
Used a hatchet to “bash” speak-easies.
Died: Dec with the inscription, “She hath done what she could.” on her tombstone.

9. Anti-Saloon League Founded in 1893 HERE in Oberlin, OH!
Announced it’s push for a National Amendment in 1913.
Allied with WTCU & Prohibitionist Party
Operated American Issue Publishing Company (Prohibition Slated Company)
Helped to make 21 states dry by 1916 with help from WTCU & Prohibitionist Party.

10. WHO COULD THIS BE?

11. What’s the message of this cartoon? Explain the Tentacles.
What’s the message of this cartoon? Explain the Tentacles.

12. What’s the view on political parties here?
What’s the view on political parties here?

13.
Guesses Anyone?

14. Has an Opposite impact, that congress had not foreseen.
-Many people obviously lost legitimate liquor related jobs.
-Between 1916 and 1928 Price of Whiskey rose 520%
-Not enough officers to enforce
-Violent Crimes rise by 24%; Fed Convicts go up 561%
-Speakeasies spring up to “quench” citizen’s thirst.
-Lack of standards on Alcohol caused a rise in poisoned liquor deaths.
-1920=1, =4,154
-Prohibition Appeared to be Failing……….

15. Organized Crime
Profit Motive encouraged the emergence of Crime “Bosses.”
Problems all over the country, but the worst in Chicago.
Half a Dozen rival gangs spring up to “square-off” for control of the Bootlegging market.

16. Al Capone Began career as gangster in Five Points Gang in Chicago.
Called a women a “whore” in an Inn he was working at, her brother slashed Capone’s face giving him the nickname, “Scareface.”
Ordered the murders of over 200 rival gang members and 20 policemen.
Main rival was “Bugs” Moran
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, February 14th, 1929.

17. Cont………. Made millions of Dollars in the Liquor industry.
Bought off anyone he could including:
Judges
Police
Congressmen
Juries

18. The Untouchables
Elliot Ness and his group of untouchables vowed to take Capone and his boys down.
Ness was a U.S. Treasury Agent sent to Chicago to help stabilize the system.
Helped to clean out all the “dirty” cops.
“Untouchables?”
Eventually nailed Capone on Tax Evasion charges and sent him to prison.

22. Websites: 1. http://www.paulsann.org/thelawlessdecade/20_s.html2. 3. 4.

23. The End of it ALL!

24. THE QUIZ!!!!! What was the Temperance Movement?
Name one organization involved in the Temperance Movement.
What was an illegal bar referred to as?
What was the name of the leader of the Untouchables?
What number amendment was prohibition?
Who is nicknamed “Ole Battle-Ax”?
Who was the Big Crime Boss nicknamed Scareface?
Prohibition commonly referred to as the __________ Act.
Scareface was finally brought up on charges of __________.
Name one of the ideas behind one of the political cartoons we saw.