Blog 14- Prohibition

Prohibition is a measure to designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. The twenty-first amendment to the U.S. Constitution took away license to do business from the brewers, distillers, vintners, and the whole sale and retail sellers of alcoholic beverages. It was a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Untied States Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating liquors, was ratified on 16 January 1919. Prohibition was in effect from December 18, 1917 to December 5, 1933.

A bootlegger is someone who makes or sells illegal liquor.

This is a Bootlegger.

Speakeasy is a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.

Speakeasy

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The New Deal

The New Deal is an economic policy of F.D Roosevelt.

The FDIC is a government agency that insures customer deposits if a bank fails, it was a last resort to restore trust in the nation's financial system.
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.
It modernized the US region around the Tennessee River, developing modern farming and generating hydroelectric power from dams. It began as one of the largest federal public works programs during the Great Depression (1933). The Tennessee Valley Authority built 40 dams (think beavers) to control flooding, and also produced cheap electricity for the predominantly rural areas. The dams held back water, widening canals thus enabling shipping. The TVA also planted forests, conserving soil by reducing erosion.
The purpose of the Social Security Act was to help those who were elderly, disabled, ect... pretty much those who can not work.
The purpose of the National War Labor Board was to mediate disputes between workers and management. The National War Labor Board was established by President Wilson after the declararation of World War I. It established an 8 hour work day and hired women during the war and were to receive equal pay for equal work. All the worker's had a right to "a living wage". The Board also administered wage control in national industries such as for the car industry. shipping, railways, telegraph lines, airlines, and mining corporations.
The purpose of the WPA-Works Progress Administration was to create as many jobs as possible as quickly as possible, from jobs in the construction industry to jobs in symphony orchestras.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was enacted to help set federal standards with respect to working conditions, including such aspects as establishing a national minimum wage and setting a maximum number of hours a person could work in a week. It was also intended to reduce or eliminate child labor. It was passed in 1938, under President Roosevelt.

Red Scare

Red Scare is a period of general fear of communists.

The Red Scare of 1919 occurred at a time when the American people felt threatened by the rising tide of Communism in Russia, widespread labor unrest, and the often bizarre forms of Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism that were supported by some recent immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. The most important government response was the beginning of the Palmer Raids. These were a series of mass arrests and deportations of immigrants who were suspected of being Communists or radicals. Between 4,000 and 10,000 individuals were arrested over the next two years. (J. Edgar Hoover, only 24 at the time, was placed in charge of the Raids).

 America sent a crap ton of money to European nations to help them rebuild, in hopes of preventing them from becoming communist nations.

Effects of the Red Scare
-Winston Churchill's famous speech about a dark curtain descending over Europe.
-In America, people who supported communism were considered criminals. People would tell government officials that their neighbors were communists, and their neighbors would be arrested.