This website will help me in writing my historical fiction essay, by providing me with a few names of people that were against prohibition. In addition to that, it provides me with an additional auto bibliography to back up their resources and quotes throughout their writing and explanations on how those resources supports their paper. As well as the support throughout the essay, it explains how the crime rate in Chicago went up when prohibition in the 1920’s started and several different main events and people that caused the crime rate to increase.
http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties
The roaring twenties article on this website shows the different aspects during the roaring twenties such as cultural/racial differences; prohibition; flappers; and the jazz era. Although the website itself does not provide a lot of in depth information on several topics, It helps formulate questions on the prohibition era that later on will help research deeper into the subject of Prohibition such as: What was the relationship between Al Capone and law enforcement? Did the law enforcement also involve themselves in the …show more content…
In addition to that, it provides several statistics on how alcohol arrests and liquor consumption decreased. Although the statistics provided in the document may not be one hundred percent accurate, as some may be rounded, there may not be an accurate representation of how the law enforcement and government officials were treated throughout this act. Prohibition was supposed to decrease a lot of violent statistics whereas the act did the opposite. After a while, the crime rates and violence started to skyrocket past the original percentage before