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Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 18th Amendment
Description of the Eighteenth Amendment that was about Prohibition and the abolishment of liquor.
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Anti Saloon League Museum
From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in American politics. Influencing the United States through the printed word and lobbying, it turned a moral crusade into a Constitutional amendment. The League left a legacy of...
US Department of Justice
U.s. Department of Justice: Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
A complete government description of Section 3789d of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which explicitly prohibits the federal government from controlling state or local police agencies, and which explicitly...
Virginia History Series
Virginia History Series: Virginia State History 20th Century (1900 1920) [Pdf]
Delve into Virginia's pivotal role in America's early 20th century through this slideshow. Students can visualize WWI, Virginia's naval bases, and other events such as the suffrage movement and prohibition in Virginia. The slideshow...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Everday Life During the Depression
The culture in America was transformed by the Great Depression. How did the families cope? Read essays about topics such as changing advertising trends, prohibition, Anti-Semitism, gender equality, new family roles, and sports during the...
Digital History
Digital History: The Roaring Twenties [Pdf]
Read this comprehensive look at the Roaring Twenties, or Jazz Age. Read about Prohibition and its ramifications, women's gains, entertainment, and literature. Also find out about the resurgence of racial unrest and violence. A very good...
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Huff English: The Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt
This is a treasure hunt based on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In it students complete a list of tasks about the book, the author, WWI, the Roaring 20's, the 18th and 19th Ammendments, prohibition, organized crime, the music,...
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Jazz Age Culture: Part 1
Features numerous links to external sites that provide information pertaining to the flapper era, jazz and the Harlem Renaissance, prohibition, racial violence, and crime.
US House of Representatives
History, Art, and Archives: Legislative Interests and Achievements
Women championed many pivotal pieces of legislation in the early 1900's. They pushed for prohibition, payment of a bonus for WWI veterans, federal money for prenatal, maternal, and infant care, and many more progressive issues. The...
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Progressing Into the 20th Century
This is an overview of the gateway into the 20th Century in Nebraska and the Progressive Movement. Highlights on prohibition, suffrage, race, and more are included.
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.
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.
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.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Clash of Cultures
Overview of the 1920s era clash in values in which religious fundamentalism flourished alongside literary and artistic movements of African-Americans and other American intellectuals.
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Beer history.com: Library
The American Brewery History homepage discusses the beer industry in American and the role of German-American brewers. Numerous articles on famous beer towns like St. Louis and Milwaukee. Info on famous brewers Busch and Miller, and even...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Eighteenth Amendment
Text of the 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcohol and a brief description of its meaning.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Government and Constitution: 21st Amendment
Short, simple summary with the full text of the 21st amendment detailing the repeal of Prohibition.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fbi History: Famous Cases: A Byte Out of History: Elliot Ness and the Fbi
Read the real story behind the relationship between the FB and Eliot Ness during the prohibition era of American history.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Syria Can No Longer Make Chemical Weapons
Article reports that inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say that Syria no longer has the ability to make chemical weapons.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Chicago Mafia
A comprehensive overview with many interesting facts and information on the Chicago Mafia who were part of the organized crime wave led by Al Capone during the Prohibition Era.
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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.
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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.
Curated OER
History Matters: Keep Off the Grass!: Coxey's Army Invades the Nation's Capital
Read the speech that Jacob S. Coxey planned to give at the U.S. Capitol in 1894, but was prohibited from doing so after being arrested for walking on the grass. He wanted to address the issue of the harm the depression of 1893 was causing.
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