After , neither group of leaders was especially successful. The educators never received the support for the campaign that they dreamed about; and the law enforcers were never able to persuade government officials to mount a wholehearted enforcement campaign against illegal suppliers of beverage alcohol. The best evidence available to historians shows that consumption of beverage alcohol declined dramatically under prohibition. In the early s, consumption of beverage alcohol was about thirty per cent of the pre-prohibition level.
Consumption grew somewhat in the last years of prohibition, as illegal supplies of liquor increased and as a new generation of Americans disregarded the law and rejected the attitude of self-sacrifice that was part of the bedrock of the prohibition movement. Nevertheless, it was a long time after repeal before consumption rates rose to their pre-prohibition levels. In that sense, prohibition "worked. We have included a table of data about alcohol consumption. We also present some data in graphic form, including the consumption of beer in gallons, the consumption of distilled spirits in gallons, and the consumption of absolute alcohol in gallons for beer and spirits, and, in total, for all beverage alcohol.
We also have some separate data for malt beverage production beer. Hoster Brewing Co. Willard Speech by Frances E. Volumes and prior are made available as digitized versions of the Congressional Record Bound Edition created as a result of a partnership between GPO and the Library of Congress. These volumes include all parts of the official printed edition.
Choose the topics you wish to browse from the selected subject headings below. Each heading will link directly to the Library of Congress Online Catalog and automatically execute a search allowing you to browse related subject headings. Please be aware that during periods of heavy use you may encounter delays in using the catalog.
For assistance in locating other subject headings which relate to this subject, please Ask A Librarian. There were many temperance societies, associations, and government agencies that published material but we cannot include all of them - here are a few.
The below searches for for searching by subject which should be a good start, but it may not full reveal all of the related material but you can also search the organizations by author as well to find those things that they published.
These are just a few of the subject headings related to the industry. There are subject headings for specific forms of alcohol and they can be found on individual pages on our Alcoholic Beverage Industry guide. Search this Guide Search. This Month in Business History. Created: February 12, Last Updated: December This is the new insignia plate the Bureau of Prohibition has adopted for use by prohibition agents in stopping suspected automobiles.
Smith, vice- president of the A. Print Resources The following materials link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Rose Call Number: HV R67 Publisher description Many factors helped create the conditions that led to the repeal of the 18th Amendment. One factor espoused by the author and others, was the presence of a large number of well-organized women promoting repeal.
The book surveys the women's movement to repeal national prohibition and places it within the contexts of women's temperance activity, women's political activity during the s, and the campaign for repeal.
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment records, Anti-prohibition organization. Chiefly printed matter together with a copy of the group's certificate of foundation, annual reports, bibliographies of anti-prohibition writings, and a mailing list.
C4 A65 This title focuses on the activities on bootlegging activities in Chicago during Prohibition. F88 This book is an account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources. Available online from Internet Archive External Available online from Hathi Trust External This is a history of the group written to educate its new members. Available online from Internet Archive External The historical coverage in this title includes Prohibition but also traces its history to before World War I.
There are appendix sections for outline of organization, classification of activities, publications, laws, a bibliography. O47 This is a general history on Prohibition and its demise.
It begins with the Temperance Movement and moves to Prohibition looking at enforcement and illegal activity. It also looks at the ongoing battle between wet v. The Law of Prohibition. Volstead act annotated: rules of law governing the practice and procedure in the federal courts and practice forms by William J.
National prohibition, the Volstead act annotated, and digest of national and state prohibition decisions, including search and seizure, with forms. Blakmore Call Number: KF B55 This is an 8 volume set that was created by binding up individual pamphlets from various sources. All of the pamphlets have their own record but use the same call number so there isn't just one record.
Volumes are: , , , , oversize , , , and Theater producers expected new crowds as Americans looked for new ways to entertain themselves without alcohol. None of it came to pass. Instead, the unintended consequences proved to be a decline in amusement and entertainment industries across the board. Restaurants failed, as they could no longer make a profit without legal liquor sales.
Theater revenues declined rather than increase, and few of the other economic benefits that had been predicted came to pass. On the whole, the initial economic effects of Prohibition were largely negative. The closing of breweries, distilleries and saloons led to the elimination of thousands of jobs, and in turn thousands more jobs were eliminated for barrel makers, truckers, waiters, and other related trades.
The unintended economic consequences of Prohibition didn't stop there. One of the most profound effects of Prohibition was on government tax revenues. Before Prohibition, many states relied heavily on excise taxes in liquor sales to fund their budgets. With Prohibition in effect, that revenue was immediately lost. The most lasting consequence was that many states and the federal government would come to rely on income tax revenue to fund their budgets going forward.
Prohibition led to many more unintended consequences because of the cat and mouse nature of Prohibition enforcement. While the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating beverages, it did not outlaw the possession or consumption of alcohol in the United States.
The Volstead Act, the federal law that provided for the enforcement of Prohibition, also left enough loopholes and quirks that it opened the door to myriad schemes to evade the dry mandate.
One of the legal exceptions to the Prohibition law was that pharmacists were allowed to dispense whiskey by prescription for any number of ailments, ranging from anxiety to influenza.
Bootleggers quickly discovered that running a pharmacy was a perfect front for their trade. As a result, the number of registered pharmacists in New York State tripled during the Prohibition era. Because Americans were also allowed to obtain wine for religious purposes, enrollments rose at churches and synagogues, and cities saw a large increase in the number of self-professed rabbis who could obtain wine for their congregations.
The law was unclear when it came to Americans making wine at home. With a wink and a nod, the American grape industry began selling kits of juice concentrate with warnings not to leave them sitting too long or else they could ferment and turn into wine.
Home stills were technically illegal, but Americans found they could purchase them at many hardware stores, while instructions for distilling could be found in public libraries in pamphlets issued by the U.
0コメント