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1 Model T Installment Plans Prohibition Scofflaws Speakeasies
The Roaring 20’s Model T Installment Plans Prohibition Scofflaws Speakeasies

2 Proposed Laws Regulating Social Behavior

3 Growth of Cities A reported 2 million people leaving farms for the cities each year. “Cities were the place to be”

4 Night Life Movie Theaters Vaudeville Houses Drinking Gambling
Casual Dating City behavior considered shocking and sinful to those who still lived in small towns.

5 Case Study: Prohibition
PBS: Prohibition

6 Prohibition The Women’s Christian Temperance Union and The Anti-Saloon League January 1920: 18th Amendment launches The “Prohibition Experiment” Manufacture, Sale, and Transportation of Alcohol were legally prohibited Caused corruption, crime, abuse, accidents, bankruptcy, and social problems

7 Loopholes After WWI Americans did not want to give up drinking
The Volstead Act set up a Prohibition Bureau Underfunded Impossible to enforce. Alcohol allowed for medicinal and religious purposes: Prescriptions skyrocketed!! People distilled their own alcohol Bootleggers: Smugglers carrying alcohol in their boots.

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9 Speakeasies Hidden underground saloons and nightclubs
Speak easy (softly) to avoid detection Found everywhere from penthouses to office buildings and the back of grocery stores. Needed a card/ password to enter Fashionable men and women filled the inside

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11 Organized Crime “evading the law and making a mock of it…has become a sort of national sport” H.L. Mencken Led to organized crime in major cities Chicago: Al Capone: Gangster who established a bootlegging empire that made over $60 million a year by killing off his competition. 522 killings in 1 year

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14 Cause/Effect We will complete this cause and effect chart as a class and then you will be responsible for answering the question below: Was the “Prohibition Experiment” successful? Did it alleviate the initial problems regarding alcohol? Sentence Starters: The Prohibition Experiment failed because… Although Prohibition benefited … it led to…

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