PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Homer vs The Eighteenth Amendment
1. Why was alcohol outlawed across the United States?
Texans outlawed alcohol in 1918
Rural communities started first, then the entire state
2. What group of people pushed for prohibition first?
4. Why weren't police across the United States making sure prohibition was being enforced?
6. What do you think people did when alcohol was hard to find?
7. Why do you think Prohibition failed?
Galveston was the alcohol capital of Texas.
People called it the Free State of Galveston, because it had a lot of bars, gambling, and prostitution.
8. What lesson can be learned from the Prohibition Era?
9. How does the Prohibition era relate to drug trafficking today?
