Essays on Prohibition Era

Prohibition means the forbidding by law the manufacturing and selling of alcoholic beverages. In the late 1800s, a period of reforms in the US, many people started to believe that alcohol had harmful effects on society. Due to the efforts of the Anti-Saloon League, the…

George Moran was born on a farm just outside of Minneapolis in 1893. His father was Irish and his mother was Polish. At six years old George and his family moved to Chicago in 1899. They settled in Kilgubbin, an Irish populated urban area north…