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Prohibition September 19, 2007

Bell Ringer… How did the Great Trek North affect your personal history? How did it affect the history of Chicago?

What is Prohibition? Working with the person next to you, come up with a definition of what you think prohibition is?

Prohibition Prohibition was the process of making the selling, and consumption of alcohol illegal.

Why? American law makers felt that prohibition would less: Combat Crimes Family Violence Poverty

18 th Amendment Prohibited the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol Ratified January 1919 October brought the Volstead Act

Enforcement Some regions took the 18 th amendment very seriously, and consumption declined. In many other areas Prohibition was unpopular and ignored.

Living above the Law… Speakeasies Bought and sold smuggled booze Made their own “ bath tub gin ” Bootlegging Al Capone Ruled Chicago with an army of mobsters Used violence to control the underworld Peaked St. Valentine ’ s day Massacre: 1929

Living above the Law… Untouchables: Army organized by Elliot Ness to take down prohibition law makers Prohibition turned formerly law abiding citizens into criminals.

Out with the old in with the New… 1933: The 21 st amendment repealed Prohibition and made alcohol sales, manufacturing, and transportation legal again.