Prohi What?
(Vocabulary)
(Vocabulary)
This term means the national ban on making, transporting, and selling alcohol in the U.S.
Prohibition
“Agents tried to ___ the law by arresting people who sold alcohol.”
Choose enforce or repeal.
Enforce
Doctors
In Document A, did the murder rate generally rise or fall between 1920 and 1933?
Rise
Instead of buying alcohol legally, people bought it from criminals. This led to the increase in _______
Bribes
Murder
Crime
Were Prohibition supporters nicknamed wets or drys?
Drys
This term refers to the secret bars that illegally sold alcohol across the U.S. during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
“Once Prohibition was passed, the country became dry"
In this sentence, what does dry mean?
Alcohol is illegal
Sober
No longer able to buy Alcohol
Which amendment established national Prohibition?
18th Amendment
According to Document B, alcohol was smuggled across U.S. borders from which two countries?
Mexico and Canada
Criminals paid police to ignore illegal alcohol sales. What are these illegal payments called?
Bribes
What Chicago gangster became famous for making money from illegal alcohol?
Al Capone
What term was used to describe the people who illegally transported and sold alcohol during Prohibition
Bootleggers
By 1932, three out of every four Americans wanted repeal. What percentage is that?
75%
What year did national Prohibition take effect?
1920
In Document C, Willebrandt criticized lawmakers for breaking the same law they had helped create. What substance were they buying?
Alcohol
What major economic crisis made jobs and government income especially important during the early 1930s?
Great Depression
During World War I, some Americans targeted breweries because their names sounded like those of which enemy country?
Germany
This term means to officially cancel or undo a law or amendment?
Repeal
This group of people were some of the first people to begin protesting in favor of banning alcohol.
Women
This law was set the rule for the enforcement of Prohibition.
Volstead Act
According to Document B, approximately how many federal Prohibition agents were there?
3,000–3,500
During Prohibition, many people began to realize that the Prohibition end because nobody was following the law. Not only were the people who were supposed to enforce the law breaking it, but also the people who ____ the law in the first place.
Made
Wrote
Created
Politicians
Lawmakers
In Document B, moonshiners who were making alcohol illegally hid fumes by sending them through the chimney of what nearby building?
Police Station
The name of this movement encouraged people to reduce or stop drinking alcohol and was widely supported among women?
The _______ movement
Temperance
A _____ is a flaw, omission, or ambiguous piece of text in a law or rule that allows someone to legally avoid following its intended purpose without actually breaking it.
Loophole
This was the name of the area 3 miles off of the U.S. coast where ships were waiting to sell alcohol. This was known as a floating bar, but it was more famously known as:
_____ _____
Two words
Rum Row
In Document D, what could governments collect from legal alcohol sales to help pay public debts?
Taxes
Which amendment repealed national Prohibition?
21st Amendment
According to Document B, smugglers’ ships waited beyond what distance from shore to avoid U.S. enforcement?
_____ Miles
3 miles