Mrs. Ruland's U.S. History Class Project
Prohibition and Organized Crime as the Folk Heroes
In this Webliography, we will be exploring how Prohibition became popular and provided the origin for organized crime in the United States. Prohibition, by law, is the forbidding of manufacture, transportation, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition started because of the 18th Amendment. This Amendment was put in place because alcohol seemed to be a cause of crime in America. This ban on alcohol caused a rise in organized crime. Organized crime is unlawful activities of a highly organized matter. Organized crime such as bootlegging and the opening of speakeasies. Bootlegging is the illegal smuggling of alcoholic beverages. Speakeasies are illegal bars that opened to distribute bootlegged alcohol.
The following links and 'lil blurbies are all talking about Organized Crime, Prohibition, and the people like Al Capone who became heroes of the Organized Crime Era.....................
This website really shows how Prohibition made heroes of the criminals in the ‘20s. The site gives lots of information on how the criminals raised the spirits of the American people. It shows how Prohibition was the hallmark of the roaring ‘20s
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This website provides good background information about Al Capone including how he got started in illegal industries, starting in his childhood. It also has information about the public's attitude towards him.
Organized Crime and Bootlegging
This site has a lot of information about organized crime, especially bootlegging. It also explains the correlation between Prohibition and organized crime, and how easy it was for people to obtain liquor if they really wanted it.
This website is a great site. It informs the reader about the beginning of prohibition, and some of the immediate effects of prohibition on the economy. You also are given example and definitions of speakeasies, prohibition, and illegal alcoholic activity at this time.
Social Issues- Organized Crime
This site talks about the Mafia and the increase of the crimes they committed. It also talks about the composition of the Mafia (i.e.. People, Divisions, etc.)
This sites talks about our topic exactly. It talks about how about which outlaws in the Prohibition and Organized Crime era became heroes among them all.
History of Alcohol Prohibition
This site shows the interstate politics of the prohibition. The site tells you what legislation was passed that would affect individual states before the Constitutional Amendment. It told how the wet states and the dry states kept independent from each other.
This site is literally Prohibition in a nutshell. It explains everything from where Prohibition started to who were the main leaders of prohibition.
History of the Prohibition Act of 1920 in America
This site explains how Prohibition was a social experiment that failed. It show the pros and cons of Prohibition and why it failed.
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