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Prohibition Era

By Fatpanda
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    Prohibition

    http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/roots-of-prohibition/

  • Maine first state

    Maine was the first state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in 1851, after Neal Dow, the mayor of Portland, gathered thousands of signatures on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law. The law was later repealed in 1856.

  • Civil War

    The Civil War as a war between the south and north over slavery.

  • Civil War

    The feud between the north and south end, the north are victorous.

  • The National Prohibition Party

    The National Prohibition Party was apart of the Temperance Movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages

  • Kansas

    Kansas is the first state to have prohibition in its state constitution.

  • The 16th Amendment

    The 16th Amendment establishing the Federal Income Tax.

  • Women's Christian Temperance Union

    Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League march on Washington D.C. to demand a Prohibition Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • Topeka, Kansas

    Pre- Prohibition temperance raid discarding liquor in Topeka, Kansas.

  • World War 1

    Starts.

  • War Time Prohibition Act

    The War Time Prohibition Act is passed to save grain for the war effort during World War I.

  • World War 1

    Ends

  • 18th amendment

    The 18th amendment is ratified by 36 states and goes into effect on the federal level.

  • The National Prohibition Act

    The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act is passed.

  • Roy Olmstead

    Roy Olmstead bootlegged alcohol while serving as police lieutenant. By 1920, Roy Olmstead had become "King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers."

  • Lawyer George Remus

    Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor.

  • Frank Allen Mather

    Frank Allen Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners when the two groups of officers encountered each other there was a misunderstanding and Agent Mather attempted to move towards the door. As he did so someone opened fire and both Policeman Soyars and Agent Mather were shot and killed.

  • Boston Herald

    four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold. Twenty-five thousand responded. Two readers split the prize. Each had come up with the same word – “scofflaw.”

  • Al Capone

    Al Capone is blamed for murder of prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin. McSwiggin was mistakenly shot and killed by Capone’s henchmen during a shoot-out between rivals outside a bar. Capone was blamed but once again due to lack of evidence he escaped arrest. However, the murder was followed by a big outcry against gangster violence and public sentiment went against Capone.

  • Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan

    the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan goes to trial for bootlegging and high jacking.

  • Gang violence

    Gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States.

  • Great Depression

  • Stock Market Crashes