HookED SOLO Hexagons - Why did Prohibition fail?
There was not enough
The American public did
Prohibition Agents to
not respect the law.
enforce the law.
The Law Enforcement
agency was under
funded.
Illegal distilleries
America has 18,000
sprang up making
miles of coastline.
moonshine.
(‘Real McCoy’)
Americans carried on
going to Speakeasies
(Secret Bars).
The Canadian and
Gangsters bribed or
Mexico borders were
threatened jurors.
impossible to
effectively patrol.
Courts were lenient.
SOLO Hexagons
Law enforcement
Unistructural LO - single hexagon.
Multistructural LO - several separate
hexagons.
Relational LO - connected hexagons
(explain the cause for connecting two
edges).
Extended abstract - tessellated hexagons
(generalise about the vertex where three
hexagons meet).
agents, police and
judges corrupt.
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HookED SOLO Hexagons - Why did Prohibition fail?
Bootleggers continued
In 1926 30,000
smuggling, supplying and
speakeasy bars across
selling alcohol.
America.
Police ignored the
lawbreakers.
“Prohibition is a
business. All I do is
Only a small amount of
supply a public demand”
illegal alcohol was
Al Capone
seized by the law
enforcement.
THE US GOVERNMENT
COULD DO NOTHING
ABOUT IT
WORKING AGAINST
THE US GOVERNMENT
PROHIBITION
COULD HAVE DONE
SOMETHING ABOUT IT
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