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Prohibition of Alcohol
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America goes dry!
• Jan. 16, 1919
• President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
• Jan 29, 1919, the 18th Amendment achieved the necessary three-fourths majority of state ratification
• 1920
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Origins
• Concerned citizens begun warning nearly 100 years earlier
• 1826 American Temperance Society founded
• WCTU
• 1893 anti-Saloon League
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Enforcing Prohibition
• The law gave exactly one year to get rid of the remaining alcohol
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"Intoxicating liquors"
it did not define "intoxicating liquors" or provide penalties. It granted both the federal government and the states the power to enforce the ban by "appropriate legislation."
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Problems Arise
• Deaths in NY
• 1919-20: aprox. 70
• 1926: aprox. 700
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Organized Crime
• Demand is higher than ever
• Illegal producers and benders of alcohol were known as bootleggers. They would make homemade liquor however they could,
• Off-the-graph prices
• Control of the market
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Rum Runs
• Americans got tired of "bath tub" alcohol
• Alcohol traffic
A. Canada
• Navy & Coast Guard vs. Rum Runner boats
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Mafia
• Bribes
• "Turfs"
• Corruption in politics and law enforcement
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Prohibition Ends• 12/5/1933
• failing fully to enforce sobriety and costing billions
• 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, ending national Prohibition.
• Mississippi, the last dry state in the Union, ended Prohibition in 1966.
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Started
• Clara Barton
• and acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 188
• first congressional charter in 1900
• WWI
• 107 - 20mil 11mil
• influenza epidemic of 1918.