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Reverland Lyman Beecher preaches against the evils of alcohol
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Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcohol
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Anti-Saloon Leaque founded by Reverned Howard Hyde Russell in Overlin, Ohio
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Pre-prohibition Temperance raid discarding liquor in Topeka, Kansas
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The National prohibition act, also know as the Volstead act is passed
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Roy Olmstead becomes "King of the Puget sound Bootleggers
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Dance halls and night clubs, called illegal speakesies, were often moved to hidden locations. One was located in Longhorn Cavern in Central Texas
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Al Capone is blamed for murder of prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin
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The trade of illegal alcohol became a source of criminal gangs gaining more and more power. Including Al Capone
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The purple gang goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking
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Gang violence is on the rise in nearly ever single city in the entire United States because of prohibition
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the 21st Amendment reapling Prohibition is ratified
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In Norflok, Virginia, John Barleycorn died. He symbolized the evils of alocohol.
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The government was starting to rethink this prohibiton situation. By march 1933 the United Stated government decided to repeal Roosevelt amending the volstead act to allowe the sale of alcohol. By december 1933, alcohol could be sold again
