1. 1920s Cultural Conflicts Prohibition,

2. Today’s Objectives  Identify and describe the influence of the 18 th amendment on the population of the United States  Should governments have a role in legislating morality?

5. Prohibition  What do you think were the main goals of prohibition?  Eliminate drunkenness and the resulting abuse of family members  Get rid of saloons, where prostitution, gambling and other forms of vices thrived  Prevent absenteeism and on-the- job drunkenness

6. Organized Crime  The Volstead Act, 1919  Bootleggers & Speakeasies

7. Arrests for Public Intoxication

8. Outcomes of Prohibition  Animosity between ‘wets’ and ‘dries’  Crime Soared  Increase in alcohol related death  More people drank in the 1920s than had in the previous decade  Loss of tax dollars  Violence