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University at Albany: Organized Crime and Prohibition
Features statistics and details about organized crime and prohibition including facts on some of the more colorful gangsters during that era.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Prohibition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within the...
Ohio State University
Temperance & Prohibition: Prohibition Party Cartoons
A great collection of political cartoons from the Prohibition Party which heaped criticism on both the Republican and Democratic parties concerning their lack of support for prohibition. Find out when the Prohibition Party was at its...
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Sen. Phelan Attacks Prohibition
An article in the April, 1929, San Francisco Magazine by California Senator, James D. Phelan, decrying Prohibition and giving many reasons why it didn't work.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Prohibition Era
Prohibition led to gangsters, speakeasies, organized crime, and political corruption. This comprehensive summary details facts and information on the Prohibition Era and the ban on alcohol.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago: 1920s Prohibition 18th Amendment
This site is from the University of Chicago Library. Prohibition was a grand idea gone awry. This project looks at the implications and consequences of the 18th amendment and asks students to create their own ideal piece of federal...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Prohibition
In 1920, the United States banned the sale and import of alcoholic beverages.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Falls County Prohibition Committee, July 5, 1915
The Prohibition movement was strong in the early 20th century. Check out this document to learn about the Prohibition Committee formed in Falls County, Texas.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Eighteenth Amendment
The 18th amendment regarding the prohibition of intoxicating liquors, as it is worded in the U.S. Constitution. Annotations about the validity, enforcement, and repeal of the amendment are provided, as well as footnotes.
Brown University
Digital Collections: $100,000,000 Saved Connecticut in Three Dry Years
In an attempt to justify the imposition of Prohibition, many wrote about its benefits. This book, published in 1923 and written by T. Justin Steuart of the Anti-Saloon League of America, gives charts upon charts and explanations about...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Wets & Drys
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails
An exposition by Lysander Spooner on behalf of the American Letter Mail Company entered according to an Act of Congress in1844, asserting that the company should have the right to establish post offices in competition with those of...
Stanford University
Riverwalk Jazz: Speakeasies, Flappers, and Red Hot Jazz: Music of Prohibition
Script of a radio broadcast about Prohibition and Jazz Age America comments on black market bootlegging, jazz music, speakeasies, flappers, and women`s suffrage.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Fight Against "Demon Rum"
The Eighteenth Amendment showed how difficult it is to legislate morality. Read about the advantages of Prohibition, especially in terms of public health. The disadvantages far outweighed the advantages. See how lawlessness increased...
Library of Congress
Loc: Prints and Photographs Reading Room the Dry Years
Here are selected photographs from the Library of Congress depicting the silly and serious aspects of Prohibition. Find a picture of the largest still in the world and a dog trained to sniff out "spirits."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Review 1920's Technology, Tensions, and Prohibition
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is filled with review questions and pictures from the 1920s about electrification, radio, broadcasting, tensions, prohibition and other topics from that decade.
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Eeoc: Federal Laws Prohibiting Job Discrimination
This site contains information about job discrimination. There is a lot of useful information at this site including information about religious accommodation, sex discrimination, and more.
Texas Public Broadcasting
Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Age of Oil, Prohibition, Women's Suffrage 1901 1929
Learn how oil has played a major role in the life and economy of Texas, shaping its population, economy, and environment.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Eighteenth and Twenty First Amendments Timeline
A timeline that documents the history of prohibition and its repeal in the United States. Each entry links to more information.
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Lower Manhattan Project: Child Labor in New York City Tenements
In the January, 1908, issue of Charities and the Commons a report was printed revealing the results of investigative reporting on child labor in home manufacture of products in New York City. Child labor was prohibited in factories by...
Virginia History Series
Virginia History Series: Virginia State History 20th Century (1921 1940) [Pdf]
The Roaring Twenties was a time of great prosperity in America and Virginia. However, it ended with a bust that shook our country to its core. Imagine the culture of this time with the help of pictures, charts, and maps. This slideshow...
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: A New Generation
Looks at the new morality that emerged in the 1920s. It changed the role of women and the perception of African Americans, the latter facilitated by the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on the music and dance of the Jazz Age. Also...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Americans and the Great War 1914 1919: A New Home Front
World War I changed the configuration of the workforce and organized labor took the opportunity to strengthen its power base. This section looks at the impact of these changes on women and African Americans, as well as how the women's...
University of Chicago
E Cuip: Classroom: Smuggler's Island
Smuggler's Island explores the issues of Prohibition giving unique insight into the attitudes towards alcohol during the 1920s.
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