Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Acrostic Poem!

People had to make moonshine.                                     
Rum running was illegal.                                                  
Opposed citizens were angry.                                         
Houses had secret bars inside.                                      
It was illegal to have alcohol.                                            
Bathtub Gin.                                                                        
Intollerance.                                                                         
The people became outlaws.                                           
Illegal saloons opened.
Outrage over alcohol ban.
No one was drinking beers.

Remembered as a period of financial crisis.
Organized crimes escalated and notorious figures like Al Capone appeared.
Admendment 18 prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquor.
Red Scares refer to the fear of communism that Americans felt.
Inventions strived like the automobile and radio.
Nation became urban and commercial with consumer demand.
Great Depression

Transportation, consumption, and possession of alcohol were not banned.
Women caught smoking and drinking, who have short hair were called flappers.
Established laws were broken by many who wanted to obtain alcohol.
Not forgotten to say that the amount of hooch that was being sold had increased.  
Techniques of architecture allowed builders to construct taller buildings.
IRS in charge of Enforcement Act.
Espionage and Sedition Acts declared by the Supreme Court.
Sacco and Vanzetti robbed and arrested, they went to trial and were sentenced to death.

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