1. BY: Alan
David
Stuart
Omar

2.  Before the 1920’s 51.2% of
Americans lived in
communities with
populations of 2,500 to
more than 1 million.
 Then America changed
drastically between 1922
and 1924.
 A lot of people migrated
to cites. Nearly 2million
people left their farms
and towns each year.
 The small rural towns
began to loose their hold
on the American mind as
the cities rose to
prominence.

3.  “Cities were the place to
be, not to get away from”
 Every night people
crowded into ornate
movie theaters and
vaudeville houses offering
a live variety of shows.
 The city was a world of
competition and change.
 Cities tolerated
drinking, gambling and
dating. Back In towns
these were considered
shocking and sinful.

4.  Considered alcohol
prime consideration
of corruption.
 Thought that drinking
led to crime, wife and
child abuse, accidents
on the jobs and other
serious social
problems.
 People considered
drinking a sin.
 Support of prohibition
came largely from the
rural south and west.

5.  Government failed
to budget enough
money to enforce
the law.
 There wasn’t
enough police
officers to enforce
the law. this led to
many crimes.
 Criminals bribed
police officers into
letting them break
the law.

6.  Prohibition leads to
crime, cause they
banned alcohol.
 Made illegal saloons
were they wood sell
the illegal alcohol.
 Hidden saloons or
night clubs were
known ass speak
easies.
 There was a password
that you need it to
know in order to get
into the speakeasies.

7.  Were illegal underground
night clubs or saloons where
alcohol was sold illegally.
 They were called
speakeasies, cause once
inside people had to talk
quietly or “easily” to avoid
being detected.
 Speak easies could be found
everywhere, in
penthouses, cellars, office
buildings, roaming
houses, tenements, hardware
stores and tea rooms.
 Inside you would find a mix
of fashionable middle class
and upper middle class men
and women.

8.  By age 26 Al Capone headed a
criminal empire in Chicago. He
controlled his empire through
the use of bribes and violence.
 1925 to 1931 Capone
bootlegged whiskey from
Canada and had control of
10,000 speakeasies and he also
operated illegal breweries in
Chicago.
 1927 Al Capone or “Big Fellow”
as he liked to be called, was
worth $10million
 Later in 1931 the big gangster
was arrested for tax evasion.
 He was put in jail and later put
in liberty. He died when he was
48.

9.  The 21st amendment
annulled the 18th
amendment.
 The 21st amendment
was passed by
Congress on February
20, 1933.
 The 21st amendment
allowed the states to
choose and set their
own alcohol laws.
 21st allowed drinking
in all states according
to their states laws.