American Prohibition and Its Legacy

📋 Course Outline

1. Saloon Culture and Alcohol Criticism
2. Temperance and Women’s Activism
3. Building Prohibition Politically
4. Prohibition Enforcement and Illicit Markets
5. Consequences and Organized Crime
6. Repeal and the Great Depression
7. Post-Repeal Alcohol Regulation

📅 Key Dates

1. 1919the 18th Amendment established constitutional Prohibition
2. 1920the Volstead Act created the framework for enforcing Prohibition
3. 1920–1933Prohibition banned the legal production and sale of alcohol in the United States
4. 1929–1933Herbert Hoover was president during the early Depression
5. December 1933the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition and restored legal alcohol sales

📖 1. Saloon Culture and Alcohol Criticism

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Saloon : A central social place and the main place to drink alcohol, but women were generally not allowed inside.

★ Must-know

• Alcohol consumption was associated with violence at home, including men beating their wives, and with men spending time in saloons instead of helping with their children.

Further detail

• Breweries paid saloons, and Chicago had 7,600 saloons.