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The Roots of Prohibition
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A review of alcohol's influence in America. Beer and Wine are overtaken by hard liquors.
PROHIBITION tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Prohibition was intended to protect all Americans from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But, paradoxically, the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality.
Video description: On Dec. 10, 1913 Washington, D.C. citizens saw their first mass march. The protesters were to demand a Prohibition Amendment.
A review of alcohol's influence in America. Beer and Wine are overtaken by hard liquors.
Rum Row started at the tip of Maine and continued down to the coast of Florida. Boats would wait three miles off the coastline then bring in illegal alcohol at night.
In 1931, Al Capone is finally caught by the government for failing to file income tax.
At the beginning of the 20th century most of the population shifted from rural to urban through immigration.
The Volstead Act was much stricter than most Americans had anticipated, including Wine and Beer in Prohibition.
Feb. 14, 1929: George Moran's gang is gunned down in cold blood and Capone is thought to have ordered the hit.
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Wynton Marsalis discuss what it takes to put together the score for Prohibition, and how the music takes on a life of it's own.
On Dec. 10, 1913 Washington, D.C. citizens saw their first mass march. The protesters were to demand a Prohibition Amendment.
Pauline Sabin, an heiress disillusioned with the Republican party, began the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform.
With the passage of the 16th Amendment, the Goverment no longer needed taxes from Alcohol. By 1914 a prohibition amendment seemed within reach.
George Remus, a successful criminal attorney in Chicago became the king of the bootleggers with his operation.
Carry Nation was the president of her local Kansas chapter of the WCTU. She vandalized saloons across Kansas in 1900, smashing them up with a hatchet.
The rise of organized crime was a drawback of Prohibition that the drys had not seen coming.
Adolphus Busch was the leader of the Brewers Association. He threw himself in front of the Prohibition movement and held it off for as long as they could.
Zeke Alpern's father Lou, owned three 'Cordial Stores' in NYC where he sold illegal alcohol.
Frances Willard started the Women's Christian Temparance Union Mary Hanchett Hunt was in charge of the Dept. of Scientific Instruction in the public schools.
Supporting Prohibition fiscally was a problem between the federal government and the state government.
The 1928 Presidental election between Hoover and Al Smith was one of the dirtiest in history.
Eliza Jane Thompson, the wife of an ohio judge, led a women's protest of saloons by praying in front of them.
Tensions emerged between native born Americans and the newly arrived immigrants.
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