Prohibition
America's dry decade
Prohibition refers to the period in the United States (1920–1933) when the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages was constitutionally banned under the Eighteenth Amendment.
The era spawned speakeasies, bootlegging, and organized crime.
My grandmother kept stories about Prohibition—her father made bathtub gin.
The word often appears without an article: during Prohibition, before Prohibition ended. (Lowercase prohibition is the general act of forbidding something.)
Illegal liquor trafficker
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- rumrunnerProhibition alcohol smuggler
- flapperTwenties unconventional young woman
jazz · Charleston · Gatsby · Al Capone · bathtub gin · Roaring Twenties · repeal · hooch
Illegal liquor trafficker
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
- black marketIllicit trading system
trafficker · smuggler · clandestine · underground · illicit · runner · stash · concealment
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- teetotalismTotal sobriety as principle
- temperance movementCampaign against alcohol consumption
- WCTUTemperance advocacy abbreviation
drys · wets · saloon · pledge · crusade · morality · reform · evangelical
Criminal organization member
- mobsterOrganized crime member
- racketeerOrganized crime participant
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
- underworldRealm of the departed
corruption · trafficking · tunnel · bribery · turf war · violence · Tommy gun · Chicago
bootlegger
Illegal liquor trafficker
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- rumrunnerProhibition alcohol smuggler
flapper · jazz · Charleston · Gatsby · Al Capone · bathtub gin · Roaring Twenties · repeal · hooch · raid
bootlegger
Illegal liquor trafficker
- contrabandProhibited trade goods
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
black market · trafficker · smuggler · clandestine · underground · illicit · runner · stash · concealment · evasion
abstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- teetotalismTotal sobriety as principle
- temperance movementCampaign against alcohol consumption
WCTU · drys · wets · saloon · pledge · crusade · morality · reform · evangelical · revival
gangster
Criminal organization member
- mobsterOrganized crime member
- racketeerOrganized crime participant
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
underworld · corruption · trafficking · tunnel · bribery · turf war · violence · Tommy gun · Chicago · Detroit
- Prohibition Erabootleggers, bootlegging, bootlegger, speakeasies, bootleg whiskey
- Prohibitionspeakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy, 18th Amendment
- Brewing HistoryIndia pale ale, Trappist monks, alewives, pale ale, barley wine
- historical lawattainder, Justinian Code, Roman law, curtesy, Napoleonic Code
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
- U.S. History TermsLouisiana Purchase, New Deal, Missouri Compromise, Great Compromise, Emancipation Proclamation
Prohibitionlegalization
Making something lawful
permission · repeal · allowance · authorization · decriminalization
Prohibitionharm reduction
Minimizing adverse outcomes pragmatically
libertarianism · laissez-faire · legalization · permissiveness · regulation
- drug prohibitionLaws criminalizing certain substances
- prohibition eraPeriod of official banning
- prohibition lawsStatutes that outlaw something
- prohibition repealLifting of alcohol restrictions
- prohibition agentsEnforcers of alcohol bans
- alcohol prohibitionLegal ban on liquor