For many Americans, the era known as the Roaring Twenties was a 10-year-long party, as Americans discovered jazz, flappers, flagpole sitting and talking movies. But it was also an era of lawlessness as crime bosses fulfilled the countrys thirst for alcoholic beverages that had been made illegal by the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Presents a history of prohibition in the United States, discussing the events leading up to it, the measures that police took to enforce it and how it became legal to manufacture alcohol again.
An overview of Prohibition that discusses the debate over the ban of alcohol, home brewing, police corruption, its repeal, and other related topics, and includes photographs, a time line, and a list of additional resources.
With the help of her faithful dog Bill and the officer responsible for putting her father in jail, thirteen-year-old Jessica faces changes in her life when she realizes that her father will not stop drinking and making moonshine.
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
Examines the life of Carry Nation, whose destruction of saloons and other businesses that sold liquor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century won her both praise and criticism from fellow prohibitionists and temperance workers.
Explores the events that lead to the passage of the 18th Amendment, descriptions of life during prohibition, and the events that led to its repeal, debates during the prohibition era as to whether the law was necessary and effective or an overreaction that caused more harm than good.
