1. Prohibition (18 th Amendment) Outlaws the sale, manufacture and transportation of intoxicating beverages

2. Introduction to Prohibition What was Prohibition? Define Temperance Define Morality Define Pious How did prohibition bring out organized crime? Can and should the government institute morality into our society? Create a T-Chart and on one side list the evils of alcohol and on the other side list the benefits of alcohol.

3. Road to Prohibition

4. I. 18 th Amendment; ratified 1919, took effect Jan. of 1920 II. Where and why did it begin? –A. Middle America – Bible Belt –B. Pious Movement –C. Moral (Morality) Crusade –Evils of Alcohol

5. III. Prohibition Organizations A. Women’s Christian Temperance Movement Again what is Temperance

6. Carrie Nation “Molly Hatchet”

8. III. Prohibition Organizations cont. B. Anti-Saloon League Wyanne Wheeler Movement became more powerful politically C. Impact of WWI

9. IV. Who approved it? Every state except for Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey US became “Dry” in January 1920

10. V. Volstead Act Defines what is illegal and outlines the enforcement of Prohibition Exceptions to the rule –For example Church or medicine

12. VI. The Enforcers – Prohibition Bureau A. Prohibition Agents B. Izzy and Moe

13. Izzy and Moe

15. VIII. Road to Repealing Prohibition A. Corruption in the Prohibition Bureau B. Organized Crime “Speakeasies” C. Rum Runners D. Drys vs. Wets

16. Did Consumption Decrease?

17. End of Prohibition VIII. 21 st Amendment - 1933 Repeal of 18 th Amendment Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here of to the States by the Congress.