PROHIBITION CRIME AND SCANDALS

PROHIBITION

• the practice of manufacturing, transportation, import, export, sale, consumption of alcohol
• Volstead Act the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment
• speakeasies: an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages

CONTINUED

• "Noble Experiment" the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale...
• manufacture, and transportation of alcohol were banned nationally
• 18th amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol

IZZY AND MOE

• Izzy and Moe were two rough, tough prohibition cops
• found ingenious ways to sneak into suspected speakeasy -- even putting Moe in a dress!

CRIME AND SCANDALS

• Moonshine, popular practice after the eighteenth amendment passed
• Gave rise to Gangsters such as Al Capone and Loeb/Leopold incident.
• concepts of morality begin to change. in morality.
• Freud & Nieche taught the universities which promoted the change in morality

CRIME AND SCANDAL

• trial of Loeb/Leopold, Clarence Darrows rousing speech blamed the degenerate state of education
• He saved them from the death penalty and they were sentenced to life imprisonment

AL CAPONE

• booze distributor; known as "Scarface"; from Chicago
• 1925, began six years of gang warfare that netted him millions of blood-covered dollars
• branded "Public Enemy Number One" / killed men by using firing squad method
• could not be convicted of the cold-blooded massacre, on St. Valentine's Day in 1929
• Dressed like policeman who we're raiding an enemy moonshiner's spot