1. By: Nick Lam & Chris McCabe
Crime and Prohibition
By: Nick Lam & Chris McCabe

2. What is Prohibition? 18th Amendment of the Constitution Volstead Act
Banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors (Alcohol)
This led to the Prohibition period of American history
Volstead Act
Passed on October 27, 1919
Passed because it was difficult to enforce Prohibition
“Bootlegging”
Increase of illegal production
21st Amendment of the Constitution
Ratified by the end of 1933
This repealed the 18th Amendment
Ended the prohibition era

3. Due to Prohibition... Led to a rise in organized crime..
Speakeasies - an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages
Bartender made up Speakeasy in order to have people “speak easy” in a bar and not draw any attention
“blind pig”
“blind tiger”
Code names to keep buying alcohol secretive
Monkey rum
Rot gut
Tarantula juice
Coffin varnish

4. Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were both lovers, and murders.
They were both gangsters that went on a killing spree and bank robbing across America.
They did not steal a lot of money because they usually robed grocery stores and gas stations, and sometimes the occasional bank.

5. Baby Face
Born Lester Joseph Gills was a notorious bank robber in the United States,in the 1920’s.
His first bank robbery was when he was just 13 years
he soon went to jail in 1931 but later escaped custody and went back to robbing banks.

6. John Dillinger Was one of the most famous bank robbers in 1920’s.
He robbed 24 banks and including 4 police stations.
He was such a great planner in his heist that out of 28 of his heist he only had to kill one person
That was a police officer when he was in a shootout.

7. Ma Barker
Known as Arizona Donnie Barker or Kate Barker was a mother of several criminals who ran the Barker Gang. She had the gang members hide in her house or cellar when they needed to lose “heat’ when they had cops following them. She eventually died when one of her sons had cops follow him to her home and she died in a shootout with the FBI.

8. The Mafia There were many families that organized crime.
In the city of New York alone, there is twenty families that run organized crime.
Of those families the luciano family is the most famous family from New York.
Charles “Lucky” Luciano was the head of this family.
He ran illegal drug trade, such as bootlegging.
He eventually got assassinated by another family member.

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