Prohibition: The True Story of America's 13 Year Booze Ban 🥃🍸🍺

They banned alcohol nationwide for almost fourteen years — and accidentally built the biggest, wildest party America has ever thrown. This is the true history of Prohibition, set to jazz. 🎧 Stream "Everybody's Drinkin'" wherever you get your music, and find everything else HistoryBops here: https://linktr.ee/historybops Subscribe for more true history, set to music. 🎶 📖 THE REAL HISTORY BEHIND THE SONG: 📍 Location: New York City and Chicago — with speakeasies operating in cities coast to coast 📅 Date: January 17, 1920 – December 5, 1933 (13 years, 10 months of national Prohibition) 👤 Key figures: Carrie Nation (hatchet-wielding temperance crusader), Wayne Wheeler (Anti-Saloon League strategist who drafted the law), Al Capone (Chicago bootlegging kingpin), Franklin D. Roosevelt (the president who pushed repeal) 📈 The scale: an estimated 20,000–100,000 illegal speakeasies operated in New York City alone at Prohibition's height (Britannica) 🍸 The law: the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act (officially the National Prohibition Act) banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol nationwide, taking effect January 17, 1920 🏛️ Setting: hidden speakeasies like New York's famous "21" Club — which rigged a mechanized bar that could dump and shatter its own liquor bottles down a chute in seconds if police raided 💔 The cost: the federal government ordered industrial alcohol to be deliberately poisoned to deter bootleggers, contributing to thousands of poisoning deaths nationwide 👑 The legacy: Al Capone's Chicago operation alone earned an estimated $100 million in 1927 — organized crime became a permanent fixture of American cities ⚔️ The end: FDR campaigned on repeal, and the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition on December 5, 1933 — the only constitutional amendment in U.S. history ratified specifically to repeal another one Whether you're a teacher building a unit on the Roaring Twenties, a homeschool parent looking for a memorable way to make real dates and names stick, or just someone who loves history you can dance to — this one's for you. HistoryBops turns real history into original songs, because dates and facts stick a lot better with a beat behind them. ⏱️ CHAPTERS ⏱️ 0:00 – Welcome to the Chase Club 0:20 – Life Before Prohibition 0:36 – Temperance, Carrie Nation, Wheeler, Ford & the Volstead Act 1:07 – Chorus: Everybody's Drinking 1:22 – Inside a Real Speakeasy 1:42 – Women and the Speakeasy Boom 1:59 – Chicago and Al Capone 2:13 – Bootlegging, Bribery & Moonshine 2:24 – Chorus: Everybody's Drinking 2:40 – Poisoned Alcohol & the Great Depression 3:00 – FDR and the 21st Amendment 3:21 – Finale: Everybody's Drinking 3:40 – Last Call #HistoryBops #Prohibition #AlCapone #Speakeasy #RoaringTwenties #americanhistory