18th Amendment Ratified January 16, 1919 “After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the U.S. for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.”
Prohibition
How did alcohol make its way to the U.S. during Prohibition? Smuggling it in (bootleggers) Making it (Moonshine) Using industrial alcohol (nasty)
Speakeasy Resistance to prohibition
Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes, Poet Jazz
Flappers
Al Capone Made hundreds of millions of dollars off the illegal liquor trade, speakeasies, gambling, brothels, etc.
Arrested for tax invasion Capone served 11 years in prison and died 9 years after his release. With the repeal of prohibition much of his illegal empire had crumbled. He remains one of the most notorious gangsters of our time. Elliot Ness the man who eventually brought down Capone
Gertrude Ederle first woman to swim the English Channel
Sports