Prohibition Fast Facts
Prohibition Fast Facts
● So convinced were they that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on i the eve of Prohibition (19201933), some towns actually sold their jails.
● During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by ii removing all references to alcohol beverage.
● The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its strict iii enforcement.
● Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, supporters insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health iv purposes.
● Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition. One suggested that the government distribute …show more content…
Others suggested that those who drank should be:
○ hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
○ exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
○ excluded from any and all churches
○ forbidden to marry
○ tortured
○ branded
○ whipped
○ sterilized
○ tattooed
○ placed in bottleshaped cages in public squares
○ forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil v ○ executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.
● A major prohibitionist group, the Women 's Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU) taught as "scientific fact" that the majority of beer drinkers die from vi dropsie (edema or swelling).
● Prohibition agents routinely broke the law themselves. They shot innocent people and regularly destroyed citizens ' vehicles, homes, businesses, and vii other valuable property. They even illegally sank a large Canadian ship.
● "Bathtub gin" got its name from the fact that alcohol, glycerine and juniper juice was mixed in bottles or jugs too tall to be filled with water from a sink tap so
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Andrew J. Volstead: A Survey of
Research. St. Paul, MN: C.L.James, 1978. Demko, P. Getting to the bottom of Minnesota’s liquor laws.
City Pages
,
2003, 21(1201), www.citypages.com, 121003. xx Burkhart, Jeff. Something to celebrate: Repeal of Prohibition.
Marin Independent Journal
, December 7, 2007. xxi Dry Counties (http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1140551076.html) i As Americans, we like to look back to the Roaring Twenties and the Prohibition Era with a fond feeling of nostalgia. It was a simpler time, and a time romanticized in movies. Prohibition was the ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933.
It was not as successful in practice as it looked on paper. Organized crime rose, and bootleggers and speakeasies became popular, serving up cocktails, beer, moonshine and bathtub gin.
Chicago, interestingly enough, was a major center of Prohibition, complete with notorious gangsters and speakeasies. Prohibition in Chicago - Fun Facts
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A few speakeasies and mob hangouts
, like John Barleycorn’s and the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, are still in business today.
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● So convinced were they that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on i the eve of Prohibition (19201933), some towns actually sold their jails.
● During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by ii removing all references to alcohol beverage.
● The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its strict iii enforcement.
● Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, supporters insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health iv purposes.
● Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition. One suggested that the government distribute …show more content…
Others suggested that those who drank should be:
○ hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
○ exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
○ excluded from any and all churches
○ forbidden to marry
○ tortured
○ branded
○ whipped
○ sterilized
○ tattooed
○ placed in bottleshaped cages in public squares
○ forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil v ○ executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.
● A major prohibitionist group, the Women 's Christian Temperance Union
(WCTU) taught as "scientific fact" that the majority of beer drinkers die from vi dropsie (edema or swelling).
● Prohibition agents routinely broke the law themselves. They shot innocent people and regularly destroyed citizens ' vehicles, homes, businesses, and vii other valuable property. They even illegally sank a large Canadian ship.
● "Bathtub gin" got its name from the fact that alcohol, glycerine and juniper juice was mixed in bottles or jugs too tall to be filled with water from a sink tap so
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●
●
●
●
●
●
● …show more content…
Andrew J. Volstead: A Survey of
Research. St. Paul, MN: C.L.James, 1978. Demko, P. Getting to the bottom of Minnesota’s liquor laws.
City Pages
,
2003, 21(1201), www.citypages.com, 121003. xx Burkhart, Jeff. Something to celebrate: Repeal of Prohibition.
Marin Independent Journal
, December 7, 2007. xxi Dry Counties (http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1140551076.html) i As Americans, we like to look back to the Roaring Twenties and the Prohibition Era with a fond feeling of nostalgia. It was a simpler time, and a time romanticized in movies. Prohibition was the ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933.
It was not as successful in practice as it looked on paper. Organized crime rose, and bootleggers and speakeasies became popular, serving up cocktails, beer, moonshine and bathtub gin.
Chicago, interestingly enough, was a major center of Prohibition, complete with notorious gangsters and speakeasies. Prohibition in Chicago - Fun Facts
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A few speakeasies and mob hangouts
, like John Barleycorn’s and the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, are still in business today.
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