1. PROHIBITION
IN THE 1920S
By: Courtland Sargent
Joshua Davis
Ryan Robinson

2.  Lever Food and Fuel Control Act of 1917
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regulated food, fuel, and other commodities
Grain shortage
Breweries and distilleries closed temporarily
18th Amendment
• permanent ban on the sale, transportation, importing, and
exporting of alcoholic beverages
• Took effect January 17, 1920

3. MORE ON THE 18 TH
AMENDMENT
WHAT
SUPPORTERS
THOUGHT
WOULD
HAPPEN:
Juvenile delinquency
eliminated
Crime would drop
Dairy & other
beverages would
prosper.
Increase in average
workers productivity
Increase in nations
prosperity
Other beverages
would replace
alcohol
Nations Health
would improve

4.  Everyone broke the law and because of that everyone thought of it as
whimsical and unimportant.

5. HOW DID IT INFLUEN CE
CRIME
 To replace the loss of alcohol people made alcohol
Had a much higher alcohol content
• Alcohol was a crime.
 Illegal activity was required to market the illegal alcohol.
 Drug use increased
 Took place of alcohol, instead of “dairy”
 Cigarettes became popular and were deemed fashionable and a sign
of rebellion.

6.  More jails filled with people convicted of alcohol use or
distribution
 Enforcement cost millions of dollars.
 US District Attorneys spent 44% of their time on Prohibition cases

7. MORE ON INFLUEN CE OF
CRIME
• Became organized and led to the rise of powerful crime syndicates.
 Murder
 Bribery & Blackmail
 Used law enforcement
All used to move
large
quantities of alcohol

8.  Over 10,000 people died from drinking wood alcohol.
 Others went permanently blind or had severe organ damage.

9. AL CAPONE

11. COST OF PROHIBITION

12.  Crime was reduced
 Jobs created In liquor industry

13. SOURCES CITED
 http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhProhibition.php
 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2009/03/12bad-effects-of-prohibition-you-should-know/
 http://prohibition.8m.com/main_part.html