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18th Amendment
Ivresse = drunkenness
Sobre =
Ivrogne = a drunkard
sober
medicine : it replaced anesthesia (it made people sleep, or at least they did not feel pain any more)
prevent infection. Finally, the soldiers were given some before a battle because it made them
more courageous !
THE ORIGINS OF PROHIBITION
What are the 2 organizations which greatly helped the cause of Prohibition ?
The Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League.
Religion also played an important role. How did churchmen nickname alcohol ?
yes
A dry state was a state which prohibited alcohol whereas a wet state was a state in
which alcohol was legal.
What was the major difference between the 18th Amendment (January 1919) and the Volstead Act (October 1919) ?
The 18th Amendment prohibited all hard liquor with over 40 % alcohol content
whereas the Volstead Act banned all alcohol that had more than 0,5 % alcohol
content, which effectively banned all forms of alcoholic beverages.
CORRUPTION
What was a bootlegger ?
41 % =
81 % =
561 %
2/3 =
2/3 of all prisoners in 1930 were convicted on alcohol and drug charges
Alphonse, or Al Capone
Scarface
Who was he ?
towns speakeasies.
One day, he ordered the brutal murder of some of his enemies. What is that day called ?
Alcatraz
Apart from crime, what other harmful effects did Prohibition have ?
It was a bar that remained open during Prohibition and where alcohol was
sold at low prices.
Was it legal ?
No
Gangs or mobs.
It was not easy to enter because there were codes, passwords and secret
handshakes.
Find the words for :
discothque = nightclub
How could people get liquor legally ?
No, it didnt. For example, Missouri ended state prohibition only in 1966,
almost 35 years after National Prohibition was repealed.
THE ROARING TWENTIES (this is the name given to the 1920s in the U.S.)
What did they begin with ?
They began with the return of young soldiers from the fronts of World War I
and a progress in the conditions of women who were gaining confidence and
independence.
Did they end happily or tragically ?
They ended tragically with the Great Depression which started on Thursday
24 October 1929, a.k.a. Black Thursday.
What was the most popular music of the prohibition age ?
jazz
the Charleston
to smuggle
MOVIES
What kind of movies were particularly popular at that time ?
gangster movies
Name 2 of them :
- The movies had to show that crime was wrong, that criminal life was
hateful and that the law always won in the end.
- The villains could not be heroes and at the end they had to be dead or in jail
(= in prison)
- Extreme violence or revenge were banned