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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. Cover PAGE 2. Table of contents PAGE 3. Group editorial PAGE 4. Has prohibition succeed at ending alcohol PAGE 5. Is prohibition fueling organized crime PAGE 6. Kaitlyn’s Cartoon PAGE 7. Should the U.S repeal Prohibition? PAGE 8. Nick’s Cartoon PAGE 9. Is organized crime becoming a threat to america PAGE 10. Bryen’s Political Cartoon
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Group editorial “Ten years ago, David Dory spent his entire paycheck on booze. David would work all day and then go to the bar until late at night. David also had a family at home. Nowadays, David no longer drinks alcohol and he spends more time with his family than ever before. David stopped drinking when the 18th Amendment was ratified.” The 18th Amendment is also known as Prohibition. Prohibition is the ban on the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol. Prohibition has greatly impacted this decade. While Prohibition has helped some Americans, it overall has harmed America. Prohibition has helped by ending domestic abuse. There has been less rage in people or madness. People are having more money instead of spending most of it on alcohol. Prohibition has harmed america because when the prohibition was made the gangs in america killed people to get beer and other gangs tried to steal it from them and it made kind of a war between those gangs.
America would be safe if there was no Prohibition. When prohibition was around their was more crime, more protests, and more domestic violence. We want prohibition overturned and we do think the if it was overturned that america would have less protests and “ less” crime. In conclusion America would be a lot “safer” without prohibition and we do want it overturned.
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Prohibition succeeding Is prohibition succeed at ending alcohol Prohibition has been somewhat effective in ending alcohol but not everyone was so accepting of the new law, Both men and women did not accept the law, both of the sexes did what was called “bootlegging” which is where they would hide alcohol and then they would drink and/or sell it illegally to others. Most gangs would also try and raid other places to steal alcohol. When gangs would raid each other's places such as “Scarface” also known as Al Capone who made some of his men disguised as cops and raid a place but this ended in a full on shoot out, this would later be known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. As the Prohibition law went on people grew relentless people started forming groups the first were called the “Drys” they were against alcohol for religious reasons they started protests
against drink and wanted the law to stay forever to keep alcohol banned everywhere. As the “Drys” raged on others began to form another group called the “Wet’s.” The “Wet’s” had been around for a while but when prohibition became a thing the “Wets” were becoming a problem for the “Drys” and the two became rivals against each other. They protested for alcohol to be legal or not to be legal, but as the law went on and on the Drys and Wets were growing bigger and bigger and neither of the groups were slowing down in their fight .
Alcohol can be a Family’s Enemy
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Is Prohibition fueling organized crime? In 1920, the ban of alcohol which is called prohibition happened. Prohibition is fueling the rise of organized crime. When prohibition of alcohol happened people were doing more crime then with alcohol around. Prohibition is fueling organized crime by making people open up secret bars and they’re making it illegally. They are learning or finding out ways to making illegal alcohol in their home such as in bathtubs. People are getting upset with this act because this is what some people spend half of their wages, and always have in their homes. Also people stocked up on alcohol before the ban took place. Groups of people such as Gangsters made illegal distillations and sold the alcohol. Alcohol was banned for many reasons such as there was too many problems such as violence, abuse, rage or madness, robberies, and people
were spending half of their wages on alcohol than actually caring for their families. When prohibition took place people had even more rage, were way more meaner to their families, still going to bars, and spending a lot of money on alcohol. Also people were seeming to join gangs or groups such as the “wet perspective” group. This group was known for their actions that were mostly illegal, but didn’t get caught. People were still getting alcohol after the prohibition took place. So it seemed like there wasn’t really a point to making the prohibition happen. Some people were glad that prohibition happened because people in their family, couldn’t spend money on alcohol. People that didn’t like the law, found ways to get alcohol such as learning how to make it in there homes, secret bars were found to be the most popular way to get alcohol. They also made illegal distillations and illegal sales.
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Problems with Prohibition Should the U.S Repeal Prohibition? By: Nick Hopson Shhh...Do you hear that? It’s another father coming home drunk and yelling at his family. While it’s easy to place the blame on the father, alcohol is also responsible for causing such an outburst. In 1919, Congress ratified the 18th Amendment to the Constitution which banned the sale, manufacturing or transportation of alcohol in the United States. Unfortunately, this has not stopped people from drinking alcohol. People who drink alcohol are still causing problems in the United States which is why the United States should not repeal prohibition.
Al Capone is a bootlegger who lives in Chicago and runs one of the largest organized crime rings in the country. Al Capone and other bootleggers sell their alcohol to speakeasies. Speakeasies are an illegal establishment, that sells alcoholic beverages.. Speakeasies are also known as the blind tiger. People could go here if they wanted a drink.
Although there are positives to making alcohol illegal, it is time for Congress to repeal Prohibition. Crime rates are There were many reasons why alcohol needed to increasing because of Prohibition and be banned in the United States. Alcohol caused gangsters are running the streets of crime, violence and families to break-up. Some America’s largest cities. Congress people could become seriously ill if they drank needs to act fast before things get out of too much alcohol. Paychecks were being spent control. at the bar instead of on the basic needs families needed to survive. Once Prohibition was passed, people were no longer getting ill from drinking too much alcohol. Workers were finally bringing their paychecks home to their families and production was up at most factories. Unfortunately, Prohibition has also had a negative reaction. Prohibition has led to bootlegging, which is when bootleggers sell alcohol illegally. Some of the nation’s most famous gangsters are bootleggers.
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America’s crime is rising Is organized crime become a threat to america? Yes prohibition is causing a rise in organized crime. Because of gangs like scarface and the moran gang. The notorious gang was in chicago and this is the gang that al capone was in and they took all of the beer and killed people for beer and he killed people in disgusting ways and then he would sell the beer illegally and the moran gang this gang was also in chicago is basically al capone rival enemies. The crime level went up because of the prohibition beurer that was made in 1920’s (and it was a law that said that beer was illegal) and because of that it increased illegal behavior like people started to find out and to make their own beer and that was illegal and that people get angry because people liked beer so they also hid beer on the in a grey container that holds beer.
Bootlegging in chicago during the height of the bureau prohibition in 1920 al capone made a multi-million dollar operation by bootlegging beer and other types of alcohol and multiple other gangs in chicago and all over the united states started bootlegging in the 1920’s. Speakeasies happened a lot, in the 1920’s during the prohibition, establishments would sell alcohol illegally, some establishments that sold liquor illegally are (cigar stores, lunchrooms, and beauty parlors) they usually sell them in the back so they wouldn’t get into trouble.
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