Prohibition Enforcement Powerpoint

Lesson Snapshot:

• When the Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess, visited New York City in the fall of 1929, one of the questions he had for his host, Mayor James J. Walker, was when was Prohibition was to go into effect.
• The problem was that Prohibition had already been the law of the United States for nearly a decade.
• That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working.
• When Prohibition began on January 19, 1920, observers predicted it would not go well.
• Previous attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American history had fared poorly.
• When a Massachusetts town banned the sale of alcohol in 1844, an enterprising tavern owner took to charging patrons for the price of seeing a striped pig—the drinks came free with the price of admission.

Powerpoint Lesson Plan:

• Aimed at Students studying across UK Year 7,8 & 9 or equivalent
• Premium resource
• Use as you wish in the classroom or home environment
• Structured powerpoint presentation and challenging tasks.
• Complete lesson plan focused around how the US aimed to enforce Prohibition.