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Prohibition
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What does Prohibition mean?
Alcohol is illegal to buy, sell, make, or consume.
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Who lead the reform movement for prohibition of alcohol?
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
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What messages about alcohol was this organization trying to
get across to the public?
Violence Abuse Crime
Productivity
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Why did some cities bring in outside police officers to enforce prohibition?
Local police were bribed to turn the other way
(many drank themselves)
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What is a bootlegger?
Someone who makes and sells illegal alcohol to
the public.
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What were some consequences of homemade distilled alcohol?
Gut rot Blindness
Death
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What is a Speakeasy or a Blind Pig?
An illegal bar
Outside: it would look like a funeral home or pet shop
Inside: hot jazz music, dancing, alcohol
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What was a rumrunner?
Someone who illegally smuggled alcohol
across borders.
(Transporting rum from the Caribbean)
Canada’s big exports were whiskey & beer
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What were some problems with prohibition?
*It was impossible to enforce. Police = bribes
People always found ways to acquire alcohol
*Quebec never agreed to the law.
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Prohibition laws were first enforced in Canada, but went
away quickly in most provinces (by the mid-1920’s).
The government decided to
regulate the industry and profit from it through taxation.
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The United States issued prohibition between 1920-1933.
This led to an increase in organized crime (i.e. the mob and gangsters).
Some Canadians made a fortune
smuggling alcohol to the U.S.