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Prohibition
What does Prohibition mean?
Alcohol is illegal to buy, sell, make, or consume.
Who lead the reform movement for prohibition of alcohol?
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
What messages about alcohol was this organization trying to
get across to the public?
Violence Abuse Crime
Productivity
Why did some cities bring in outside police officers to enforce prohibition?
Local police were bribed to turn the other way
(many drank themselves)
What is a bootlegger?
Someone who makes and sells illegal alcohol to
the public.
What were some consequences of homemade distilled alcohol?
Gut rot Blindness
Death
What is a Speakeasy or a Blind Pig?
An illegal bar
Outside: it would look like a funeral home or pet shop
Inside: hot jazz music, dancing, alcohol
What was a rumrunner?
Someone who illegally smuggled alcohol
across borders.
(Transporting rum from the Caribbean)
Canada’s big exports were whiskey & beer
What were some problems with prohibition?
*It was impossible to enforce. Police = bribes
People always found ways to acquire alcohol
*Quebec never agreed to the law.
Prohibition laws were first enforced in Canada, but went
away quickly in most provinces (by the mid-1920’s).
The government decided to
regulate the industry and profit from it through taxation.
The United States issued prohibition between 1920-1933.
This led to an increase in organized crime (i.e. the mob and gangsters).
Some Canadians made a fortune
smuggling alcohol to the U.S.
