Prohibition

• • Importance: it was put into place because alcohol was blamed for crime, public drunkenness, physical and mental abuse and poverty
• Prohibition: laws against making and selling liquor - lasted until the war ended
• • Goal was for many families to improve their lives, grain used for alcohol could be used for food instead
• REASONS TO BAN ALCOHOL

  • Seen as a source of misery in an age before social welfare
  • Was an obstacle to economic success, social cohesion, and moral and religious purity
• REASONS NOT TO BAN ALCOHOL

  • Increase on organized crime
  • Corruption 
• Positive and Negative Effects of Prohibition

  • Positive: less abuse, less child abuse, less public drunkenness
  • Negative: created an entire black market just for selling alcohol, let organized crime syndicates thrive, corruption of law enforcement 
• Why did Canada drop the Prohibition Laws?

  • Because the government lost incomes generated by alcohol taxes, by 1921 provincial governments began to repeal prohibition laws and replace them with government controlled liquor sales
• • Speakeasy: illegal establishment serving alcohol
• Jazz

  • Duke Ellington, Nathaniel Robert Dett, Louis Armstrong were all jazz musicians
• Art

  • Group of 7 often painted Canada’s rugged northland
  • J.E.H MacDonald, Lawren Harris, Franklin Carmichael, Arthur Lismer, F.H. Varley, A.Y Jackson, FRanz Johnson
  • Added to emerging sense of Canadian nationalism