background preloader

Prohibition

Facebook Twitter

The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32. The Rise of Al Capone in the Roaring Twenties – The Ascension of Organized Crime. Al Capone [1] The Italian Mafia continued to grow after the rise of the La Cosa Nostra, however they were not the only contestants in the field of organized crime.

The Rise of Al Capone in the Roaring Twenties – The Ascension of Organized Crime

“Scarface” Al Capone arrived into the scene as a major player during the 1920s in Chicago, Illinois. Al Capone: The Hero and Villain of 1920s Chicago by Matthew Kruger on Prezi. Conclusion. A line of shamefaced bootleggers in a Detroit, Michigan police station (1929) Documents Group 3. Temperance & Prohibition. Chicago Justice for a Chicago Bootlegger - Top 10 Prohibition Tales.

Like many entrepreneurs during Prohibition, one-time Illinois lawyer George Remus discovered early on that when it comes to dispensing giggle water, crime pays.

Chicago Justice for a Chicago Bootlegger - Top 10 Prohibition Tales

In two years, "The King of Bootleggers" had amassed nearly $75 million in booze-soaked bills, using much of his fortune to pay police officers for their silence and mobsters (his former clients) for their protection. But on October 6, 1927, Remus' life of crime caught up with him after he chased down his philandering wife and shot her in front of their daughter. Or so one would have thought. Defending himself, the bald, raucous attorney managed to convince a jury of his peers that he was nothing more than a lovelorn cuckold driven to the realm of insanity by a cavorting spouse.

Alcohol and Al Capone. If in the year 1919--when the Peace Treaty still hung in the balance, and Woodrow Wilson was chanting the praises of the League, and the Bolshevist bogey stalked across .the land, and fathers and mothers were only beginning to worry about the Younger Generation-you had informed the average American citizen that prohibition was destined to furnish the most violently explosive public issue of the nineteen-twenties, he would probably have told you that you were crazy.

Alcohol and Al Capone

Nothing in recent American history is more extraordinary, as one looks back from the nineteen-thirties, than the ease with which-after generations of uphill fighting by the drys---prohibition was finally written upon the statute books. The country accepted it not only willingly, but almost absent-mindedly. Prohibition in the Progressive Era - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation. The temperance movement, discouraging the use of alcoholic beverages, had been active and influential in the United States since at least the 1830s.

Prohibition in the Progressive Era - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation

Since the use of alcohol was often associated with such social ills as poverty and insanity, temperance often went hand in hand with other reform movements. From the 1850s onward, the temperance movement focused much of its efforts on Irish and German immigrants. Temperance advocates did not always emphasize prohibiting the consumption of alcohol. Speakeasy. New York's 21 Club was a Prohibition-era speakeasy.

Speakeasy

A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. The Roaring '20s and Prohibition. Bureau of Prohibition. Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol, c.1921.

Bureau of Prohibition

Prohibition in the United States. Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine brewery during the Prohibition era Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.[1] The dry movement, led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. Prohibition was mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Records of the Bureau of Prohibition. Archival Research Room Microfilm Research Room Public Access Computers Our diverse records are of general historical interest and genealogical.

Records of the Bureau of Prohibition

The Seattle facility also serves as a Records Center, storing records from Federal agencies and courts in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and available for agency retrieval as needed. Our Records Management staff provides assistance to Federal Government agencies. Notice: As part of ongoing budget adjustments, the National Archives at Anchorage will close in 2014.

Their archival records will be moved to the National Archives at Seattle. Address 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, Washington 98115-7999 Email: seattle.archives@nara.gov * Larger Version Map showing the location of the Regional Archives in Seattle, WA. From I-5 Exit I-5 at Highway 520 eastbound. From the East Take Highway 520 westbound and cross the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. By Bus The facility can be reached on Metro bus routes 74 and 75. Hours. Prohibition in the Progressive Era - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation. Prohibition: Home. Prohibition. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. February 14, 1929 With one ruthless stroke, Al Capone assumes undisputed leadership of Chicago crime.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

February 14, 2014|By John O'Brien | Tribune staff reporter On this frigid morning, in an unheated brick garage at 2122 N. Clark St., seven men were lined up against a whitewashed wall and pumped with 90 bullets from submachine guns, shotguns and a revolver. 18th and 21st Amendments. A wave of intense religious revivalism that swept the U.S. during the 1820s and 30s led to the formation of a number of prohibition movements driven by religious groups who considered alcohol, specifically drunkenness, a “national curse.”

18th and 21st Amendments

(This revivalism also helped inspire the movement to end slavery.) The first temperance legislation appeared in 1838, in the form of a Massachusetts law prohibiting the sale of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities. Though it was repealed two years later, Maine passed the first state prohibition law in 1846, and by the time the Civil War began, a number of other states had followed suit. As early as 1873, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Ohio called for the abolition of the sale of alcohol. They were soon joined in the fight by the even more powerful Anti-Saloon League (ASL), founded in 1893 in Ohio but later expanded into a national organization that endorsed political candidates and lobbied for legislation against saloons.