1. THE “Roaring Twenties” Prohibition

2. The Temperance Movement

4. Prohibition: “The Noble Experiment”
Prohibition: a ban on the manufacture, consumption and sale of liquor in the United States.

5. 18th Amendment

6. Americans “get around prohibition”
Alcohol is illegal in the US, opportunity strikes for illegal activity
Bootleggers- prospered by smuggling liquor into the US from Canada or the Caribbean

8. Speakeasies
Secret saloons became popular
known as speakeasies.

9. G- Men Fight Prohibition Related Crime

10. No…Not These G-Men

11. G- Men Fight Prohibition Related Crime
“G-men” – were Federal Prohibition agents sent across the US to shut down speakeasies and break up bootlegging rings.

12. Rise of Organized Crime
Prohibition gave organized crime a big boost

13. People began to think Prohibition was a mistake
Prohibition was very difficult to enforce.
Crime rates skyrocketed in the 1920’s due to illegal activity related to prohibition.
The Government was loosing millions of dollars fighting crime and on liquor revenue.

14. 21st Amendment
In 1933 the 21st Amendment was ratified. The 21st Amendment repealed prohibition.
Repealed- cancelled

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