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Road to Prohibition

WCTU Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874) Stood for women’s rights, child labor laws, worker’s rights, prohibition, etc. 1911= 250,000 members (largest women’s group in nation’s history)

Carry Nation Most successful and well known WCTU reformer was Carry Nation. She would march into a bar and sing and pray, while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet.

Carry Nation Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested some 30 times, and paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets. Changed her name to Carry A. Nation and referred to herself as “A Home Defender”.

Anti-Saloon League Founded in 1895 Instead of focusing on individuals, the Anti-Saloon League took a legal stance against alcohol 1900-1917= half of states were “dry” “Dry”- illegal to sell, produce, or use alcohol

18th Amendment Went into effect in January of 1920 Prohibition= illegalized sale, production and transportation of liquor…use? Initially, crime and drunkenness decreased Volstead Act- Created a gov. bureau to monitor and patrol alcohol but was under funded and ineffective

Al Capone Chicago bootlegger/gangster Ran largest crime racket during Prohibition era St. Valentine’s Day Massacre- (1929) Bloody shootout between North and South Siders Arrested for tax evasion and died of Syphillis

Results of Prohibition Speakeasies- hidden saloons/ nightclubs used to consume alcohol in Ex) offices, tenements, stores, tea rooms, etc. Bootleggers- Smugglers of alcohol Ex) Canada, Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, etc.

21st Amendment Enacted in 1933 Repealed Prohibition By late 1920’s only 19% of Americans supported Prohibition