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Library Company of Philadelphia: Ardent Spirits: American Temperance Movement
An extensive exhibit of the origins of the temperance movement in the United States, dating from the seventeenth century.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of San Francisco: Rum Bribery Higherups Hunted as Plotters
This site from the Museum of the City of San Francisco provides an article from a prohibition-period newspaper that reports the new attack by prosecutors on policemen who have been bribed by bootleggers.
Library of Congress
Loc: Progressive Era to New Era, 1900 1929
This website defines and explores the Progressive Era and various aspects of American society during that period of history. It contains fairly simple text and several images.
Wessels Living History Farm
Wessels: Farming in the 1920s: 1920s World Events
Find a list of events in many categories that occurred in the 1920s.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Outlines: Clash of Cultures
Although brief, this discussion of the clash of cultures in the 1920s covers all the reasons for cultural discordance.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: The Suffrage Movement
This resource provides information on major contributors to suffrage, links to prohibition, and names of early organizations to back the movement. It contains links to related websites, as well as some excellent videos.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Prohibition
In 1920, the United States banned the sale and import of alcoholic beverages.
Digital History
Digital History: The Democratic Convention of 1924
The representatives to the Democratic Convention in 1924 were diverse and devisive. Read about how groups holding totally opposite beliefs attempted to select a candidate to run against Calvin Coolidge. Read about the results of the...
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...
Chicago History Museum
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Al Capone
A brief historical account of infamous member of the Chicago's underworld, Alphonse Capone.
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.
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History of the Roaring Twenties
Step back in time to the 1920s and explore the history that made this era the 'Roaring Twenties'.
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.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Decade That Roared
A very brief overview of the decade between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Volstead Act
A brief description of the Volstead Act, which allowed the federal government to enforce the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or distribution of intoxicating liquors, better know as Prohibition.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Era of Wonderful Nonsense and Fads
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the fads of the 1920's and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense with numerous pictures, discussion, and lingo.
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service: Historical Documents Relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone
Access the documents held by the Internal Revenue Service related to the prosecution of Al Capone for tax evasion.
Other
Roaring 20s Gangster Links
Provides a list of links regarding the 1920s most famous gangsters, bootleggers, rumrunners, drug peddlers, and labor racketeers.
Other
Mystery Net: st.valentine's Day Massacre
The story behind the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. While gangland warfare was commonplace in Chicago during Prohibition, this attack was unusual because all of the victims were known mobsters.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
A comprehensive overview and a list of interesting facts pertaining to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre which made Al Capone and his Chicago Mafia national celebrities.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Al Capone Facts
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on Al "Scarface" Capone, the most famous of all the Prohibition Era gangsters.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Volstead Act
Comprehensive summary provides facts and information that relates how the Volstead Act, or National Prohibition Act, was enacted to enforce the 18th amendment on Prohibition.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 18th Amendment
Description of the Eighteenth Amendment that was about Prohibition and the abolishment of liquor.