Al Capone DBQ

Al Capone DBQ

Al Capone was from Chicago and the greatest gangster in the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition happened from 1919 to 1933 and was famously known as the "Roaring Twenties". The Eighteenth Amendment was passed and banned the manufacture and sales of all alcoholic beverages. The Volstead act made the law official and stated that owning any item used to produce alcohol was illegal. According to the background essay, "meant any beverage more than 0.5% alcohol by volume." This meant that no alcohol with more than the legal amount was allowed. Anyone who did this would go to jail or be fined. People wanted alcohol, so bad that all these bars started to open. "Illegal bars, called speakeasies, opened up across the country" as stated in the background ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...It was a good time for bootleggers, rumrunners, gangsters, etc. because their life was good and they had everything they wanted. Gangs would cause trouble and the evils of society would come out. Doc B states, "But for the owners of blind pigs, the bootleggers, the rumrunners and gangsters, the roadhouse proprietors, the police, the magistrates, the spotters, the boaters and armies of others, it was a roaring success." It gave jobs to the people who supported prohibition because they would sell the alcohol. People were becoming rich, owning nice suits, and fancy cars. But for the temperance societies, churches and fanatic evangelists who authored the legislation prohibition was a fail. " ...putting liquor out of the reach of the general population, they had in effect created a monster." (Doc B). Prohibition did not stop people from getting liquor like these religious groups thought it would. Even though life was good for the people who did not support prohibition they caused too much trouble and the people who supported prohibition were not happy with the outcome of this new law. In conclusion, prohibition is disturbing society and causing trouble because people are desperate for the

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