Constitution of Prohibition
This defined an intoxicating beverage as anything that contained more than one half of one percent alcohol.
What is the Volstead Act?
A homemade potent alcohol with an interesting name.
What is bathtub gin?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Section 1: The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
What is the 21st amendment?
Section 1: After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
What is the 18th amendment?
The illegal trafficking of liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation.
What is bootlegging?
An organization during the temperance movement that lobbied for prohibition.
This state kept its prohibition laws for another three decades.
What is Mississippi?
What are Connecticut and Rhode Island?
An illicit bar... shhh.
He signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which amended the Volstead Act. Nine months later, Prohibition was repealed at the federal level.
Who is FDR?
In New York, this percentage of the states revenue was derived from liquor taxes (prior to prohibition).
Who are the presidents during the prohibition era?
Who are Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt?
When Chicago’s North Side erupted in gang violence. Al Capone sought to control gang activity like bootlegging, gambling and prostitution from his rivals.
7 members of Capones rival gang were shot and killed on February 14th, 1929.
What is the St. Valentines Day Massacre?
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
On average, this many Americans died yearly during prohibition due to the effects of drinking tainted liquor.
What is 1,000?