Political:
-Prohibition was authorized and implemented with the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act.
-a lack of enforcement officials made it difficult to implement prohibition
-Lindbergh Law passed after the kidnapping of an infant, an act showing the decline in morals of criminals during this period.
-legislators, hypocritically drank in private while espousing prohibition ideals in public
Economic:
-Rumrunners from foreign countries gained business in America following Prohibition.
-bank savings increased
-organized criminals made $12 billion to $18 billion by 1930
-state and federal officials were bribed
Social:
-prohibition was supported by women and churches
-prohibition was popular in the South and West; southern whites didn't want African Americans to be able to drink
-eastern cities and foreign born people were against prohibition
-merchants and business people were forced to pay gangsters because of violent intimidation
-Prohibition was authorized and implemented with the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act.
-a lack of enforcement officials made it difficult to implement prohibition
-Lindbergh Law passed after the kidnapping of an infant, an act showing the decline in morals of criminals during this period.
-legislators, hypocritically drank in private while espousing prohibition ideals in public
Economic:
-Rumrunners from foreign countries gained business in America following Prohibition.
-bank savings increased
-organized criminals made $12 billion to $18 billion by 1930
-state and federal officials were bribed
Social:
-prohibition was supported by women and churches
-prohibition was popular in the South and West; southern whites didn't want African Americans to be able to drink
-eastern cities and foreign born people were against prohibition
-merchants and business people were forced to pay gangsters because of violent intimidation