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Prohibition Proposed
Proposed to ban the manufacture, sale, and transportation of aloholic beverages. It was supported mainly by women and wives that have been beaten by their drunked husbands. The wives also didn't like that their husbands were spending so much time and money at the bars. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment astablished prohibition. This banning the manufacature, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Ratification of 18th
The ratification starts with Mississippi on Jan 7,1918. Pennsylvania is the second to last, ratifying it on Feb 25, 1919. The last state to ratify the 18th amendment was New Jersey on March 9, 1922. Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected the proposed amendment there for never signing it. -
Volstead Act
Also known as National Prohibition Act. The Anti-Saloon created the act and drafted the bill. It was named after the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Andrew Volstead. This stated the punishments if you were caught breaking the 18th. -
Bootleggers
Bootlegging was the process of supplyiing alcohol to people and speakeasies where people illegally consumed alcohol. There was such a great demand for the beverages because millions of people neither wanted the law nor resected it. Speakeasies are resturants and hangouts that illegally sold alcoholic beverages to citizens. Prohibition created a large market for supplying the alcohol and lots of money and power was earned by many gangsters. -
Al Capone
Al Capone becomes the most powerful man in the town of Chicago due to prohibition. Al Capone ran a large alcohol smuggling business that paid so well that he could pay off and bribe police as well as politicians to keep his operation running smoothly. This was a multi-million dollar business. -
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
"When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognized. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened." -John Rock. -
21st Amendment Proposed
Senator John Blaine from Wisconsin proposed a resolution to congress wanting the states to repeal the 18th Amendment. This was due to a large increase in crime rates, -
21st Amendment
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and allowed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in states that repealed the 18th. The dry spell and the era of bootleging was officially over. -
Ratification of 21st
Michigan was the first ratifying on April 10, 1933. South Carolina rejected the amendment on Dec 4, 1933, the day before it passes into law. Many states decide not to ratify the amendment, those being; Nebraska, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North and South Dakota, and Georgia.
