Monday-prohibition
supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption,Crime wife and child abuse and accidents
manufacture,sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal.
alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
prescriptions and sacramental was allowed
salloons closed and drunkenness went down
people despised it saw it as government meddling in peoples lives
prohibition bureau was underfunded had 1,500 people to supervise the country
organized crime became common
bootlegging-people who made or transported alcohol illegally
most imported alcohol came from Canada cube and west indies
moonshine alcohol made secretly in home made stills
several hundred people a year died from drinking moonshine during the 1920
speakeasies to obtain alcohol illegally,people went underground to secret bar they could be anywhere
repealed in the 1933 by the 21st amendment
Al capone-scarface gang leader that controlled most of Chicago
got him on tax evasion
fundamentalist believed everything could be explained by the bible
They disagreed about evolution
1925 Tennessee passed the first law making it illegal to teach evolution in school
scopes taugh evolution and was arrested
Clarence Darrow was hired by ACLU to defend scopes
Darrow called Bryan to the stand and ask him questions about the bible
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