Prohibition Source based Coursework.

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Barnaby Offei

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Prohibition Coursework

  1. Study Sources A and B

    How far do these two accounts agree about prohibition?

In both sources they feel very strongly about the banning of

alcohol. In source A it talks about how in 1917 twenty-three states had already introduced a ban on alcohol. Both sources mention how an Anti Saloon League was set up in 1917 to stop the saloons producing alcohol and selling it to people. When prohibition law enforcement came into effect in 1920 a lot of crime, and also the making, buying and selling of alcohol increased. Both sources talks about the fact that people started to use the grain in food for the alcohol that was brewed.

        Source B talks about the US parliament putting a ban the use of grain for distilling or brewing of alcohol. The two sources felt very strongly about the fact that the grain was being used for alcohol. In source B it talks about the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which joined in the crusade to put a stop to the illegal crime of buying and selling alcohol. As you can see both sources talk about all the ways in which the enforcement of prohibition came together.

  1. Study Sources C and D

    Were the artists of these two posters for or against prohibition?

The artists were very much in favour of prohibition.

In source C the artist is trying to say in the end all the breadwinners will be slaves to alcohol. In source C there is a cartoon of a lady’s husband going to a saloon and giving all his wages for a drink of alcohol. The man’s wages in the cartoon are symbolised by the bag with the dollar sign on it. On top of this it says “the Poor Mans Club” which suggests that all men come to the saloon with the lot of money and leave feeling very drunk with no money in their pockets for their families. There is a smaller cartoon in cartoon C of a woman and a child starving and waiting for the man of the house to return with food and money for them, but they know he has already spent the money on alcohol.

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        In source D, the cartoonist is trying to express the fact that the alcohol will not only destroy your father’s life but it will also destroy yours too. In the cartoon there are two children who are waiting for

their father to come out of the saloon. They both have sad faces, especially the girl because I think she has accepted the fact that her daddy is a slave to alcohol. The girl is saying to her brother that “daddy is in there and our shoes and stockings and food are in the saloon too, and they ...

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