1920s and Prohibition

  • Temperance laws being passed

    Temperance laws are laws against alcohol
  • First prohibition law

    Maine passed the first prohibition law and many states followed suit.
  • New waves of attack on liquor

    The woman didn't like how liquor affected their families and wanted it banded
  • Temporary wartime prohibition

    When The U.S first joined world war 1, The President made a temporary prohibition to save grain for food
  • National Prohibition

    Congress made guidelines for prohibition
  • 18th amendment

    Stops transporting liqour
  • Enforced prohibition

    The government had trouble enforcing prohibition
  • People making the own alcohol

    People started to make moonshine and other beer
  • St. Valentine's day Massacre in Chicago

    People dressed as police shot people in an enemy gang
  • Prohibition ends

    The cost of liquor was going down and it was ending in the late 1920's