Prohibition

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Dont drink that Its Illegal!
Prohibition Temperance in the 1920s
Mr. Jon Creamer ED639 Unit The Roaring
20s Lesson Temperance and Prohibition Grade 10
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OBJECTIVES
The tenth grade students will learn the
importance of the passage of the 18th amendment
and the temperance movement that pushed for
it. The tenth grade students will practice
critical thinking skills applied to looking at
political cartoons and the meanings behind
them. The students will understand the timeline
of the beginning of a womens movement to be
heard beginning with temperance and going through
to their passage of Womens Suffrage. Finally the
tenth grade students will gain some skill at
understanding the thought behind some political
cartoons.
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Materials Needed

• LCD Projector for Presentation
• Student THINKERS

Students Will Need

• Their Notebooks
• Pencil/Pen
• Sheet of Paper for Quiz.
• Their THINKING CAPS

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-Between January 1920 and April 1933 the 18th
Amendment was in effect. -Made it illegal to
import, export, transport, sell or manufacture
intoxicating liquor. -.05 so that sacramental
wine and medicinal alcohol could be
used. -Commonly referred to as the Volstead Act,
in honor of Andrew J. Volstead, the congressman
who authored it.
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Temperance
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• Rise of the Prohibition Party
• 1890s
• Separate from Dems or GOP
• Sole platform was to push National Prohibition
• Supported Womens Suffrage
• Sold themselves as a multi-party organization,
  meaning you could be Dem or GOP AND a
  Prohibitionist member.

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Other Movements People
Womens Christian Temperance Union -Frances
Willard help found Prohibition Party and Leader
of WCTU. Died in 1898 and Carry Nation helped
take over. -Ladies were called to action to
protest everywhere!
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Carry A. Nation (Ole Battle-Ax)

• Joined WCTU and began her crusade.
• Got her state of Kansas to be dry by 1880.
• 1900 says that God told her to save Kansas from
  the bootleggers.
• Smashed her first saloon June 1, 1900.
• Used a hatchet to bash speak-easies.
• Died Dec. 1911 with the inscription, She hath
  done what she could. on her tombstone.

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Anti-Saloon League

• Founded in 1893 HERE in Oberlin, OH!
• Announced its push for a National Amendment in
  1913.
• Allied with WTCU Prohibitionist Party
• Operated American Issue Publishing Company
  (Prohibition Slated Company)
• Helped to make 21 states dry by 1916 with help
  from WTCU Prohibitionist Party.

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WHO COULD THIS BE?
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http//prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/ProhPart
y/index.htm
Whats the message of this cartoon? Explain the
Tentacles.
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http//prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/ProhPart
y/index.htm
Whats the view on political parties here?
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http//prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/ProhPart
y/index.htm
Guesses Anyone?
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Has an Opposite impact, that congress had not
foreseen. -Many people obviously lost legitimate
liquor related jobs. -Between 1916 and 1928
Price of Whiskey rose 520 -Not enough officers
to enforce -Violent Crimes rise by 24 Fed
Convicts go up 561 -Speakeasies spring up to
quench citizens thirst.
-Lack of standards on Alcohol caused a rise in
poisoned liquor deaths. -19201,064
-19254,154 -Prohibition Appeared to be
Failing.
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Organized Crime

• Profit Motive encouraged the emergence of Crime
  Bosses.
• Problems all over the country, but the worst in
  Chicago.
• Half a Dozen rival gangs spring up to
  square-off for control of the Bootlegging
  market.

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Al Capone

• Began career as gangster in Five Points Gang in
  Chicago.
• Called a women a whore in an Inn he was working
  at, her brother slashed Capones face giving him
  the nickname, Scareface.
• Ordered the murders of over 200 rival gang
  members and 20 policemen.
• Main rival was Bugs Moran
• St. Valentines Day Massacre, February 14th, 1929.

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Cont.

• Made millions of Dollars in the Liquor industry.
• Bought off anyone he could including
• Judges
• Police
• Congressmen
• Juries

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The Untouchables

• Elliot Ness and his group of untouchables vowed
  to take Capone and his boys down.
• Ness was a U.S. Treasury Agent sent to Chicago to
  help stabilize the system.
• Helped to clean out all the dirty cops.
• Untouchables?
• Eventually nailed Capone on Tax Evasion charges
  and sent him to prison.

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Websites
1. http//www.paulsann.org/thelawlessdecade/20_s.h
tml 2. http//www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/pr
ojects/prohibition/ 3. http//www.geocities.com/at
hens/troy/4399/ 4. http//us.history.wisc.edu/hist
102/lectures/lecture17.html
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The End of it ALL!
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THE QUIZ!!!!!

• What was the Temperance Movement?
• Name one organization involved in the Temperance
  Movement.
• What was an illegal bar referred to as?
• What was the name of the leader of the
  Untouchables?
• What number amendment was prohibition?
• Who is nicknamed Ole Battle-Ax?
• Who was the Big Crime Boss nicknamed Scareface?
• Prohibition commonly referred to as the
  __________ Act.
• Scareface was finally brought up on charges of
  __________.
• Name one of the ideas behind one of the political
  cartoons we saw.