US_Ch7_webquest-1-job-saloon

=**You chose saloon**=

No...did you forget about this being the era of Prohibition??? It was a time when the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol was banned. The purpose wasn't necessarily to stop private citizens from consuming alcohol, but rather to shut down the saloons, which were seen as the hotbeds of prostitution and organized crime along with gambling. The consumption of alcohol and crimes related to alcohol declined in the 1920s. However, the problems with Prohibition were within the area of enforcement. There were only 1,500 federal agents and they weren't trained agents in the civil service within the Justice Department. In addition, states that previously enforced their own anti-alcohol laws relied on the federal government to now do the enforcing while the federal government still expected states to hold up their end. Furthermore, the liquor industry pumped massive resources into the repeal of alcohol campaign and got a monopoly on the press coverage. This doomed Prohibition even though statistics show that social and health problems related to alcohol were declining. Anyways, our suspect was not looking to purchase a saloon. They were illegal in the 1920s and this particular suspect had no ties to organized crime.

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