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The USA 1919–1948: The People and the State

Prohibition, the Red Scare and immigration restrictions

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Overview

The temperance campaigners, the Eighteenth Amendment, speakeasies and bootleggers, why prohibition was abandoned in 1933, the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the immigration quotas of 1921 and 1924.

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Which groups campaigned hardest to have alcohol banned, and why?

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Which amendment banned the making, selling and transporting of alcohol, and when did it take effect?

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  1. 1

    Which groups campaigned hardest to have alcohol banned, and why?

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    The Anti-Saloon League and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who blamed drink for poverty, violence in the home and crime.

  2. 2

    Which amendment banned the making, selling and transporting of alcohol, and when did it take effect?

    Model answer

    The Eighteenth Amendment, which came into force in January 1920 and was enforced by the Volstead Act.

  3. 3

    How did Americans get alcohol once it was banned?

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    From illegal bars called speakeasies, from bootleggers who smuggled it in, and from homemade moonshine.

  4. 4

    Why was the ban on alcohol abandoned in 1933?

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    It was widely broken, it made gangsters such as Al Capone rich and corrupted police and officials, and repeal promised jobs and tax revenue in the Depression.

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    What was the Red Scare?

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    A wave of fear after the Russian Revolution that communists and anarchists were plotting revolution in America, fed by strikes and letter bombs in 1919.

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    What happened in the Palmer Raids?

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    Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's agents raided homes and offices in 1919 and 1920, arresting thousands of suspected radicals, often without warrants, and deporting hundreds.

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