crime and corruption

• Volstead Act

  • January 1920
  • the manufacture, sale and transport of alcohol was prohitibited/banned.
  • america was now officially 'dry'
• WCTM: women's christian temperace movement

  argued that there was a clear link between alcohol and domestic violence . christians believed that alcohol consumption linked to sinful behaviour.

  • alcohol was against the Christian values of hard work and family value.
• Anti-Saloon League

  • argued that prohibition was anti-patriotic

  alcohol made workers late and unproductive, weakening the US economy.
• 1934 - the 21st amendment ended Prohibition in 1933.
• 1851: Maine became the first state to pass prohibition. by 1917, 2/3 of states, mostly in the south and west, had passed prohibition laws.