Rumrunner's Paradise: Prohibition in the Northwest and Canada

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Classroom Material
Keywords
Rumrunner's Paradise KSPS Pacific Northwest Washington State Progressive Era liquor laws black market economy underground economy prohibition entrepreneurs prohibition laws dry towns wet towns suffrage 21st Amendment prohibition repeal impact of prohibition Eighteenth Amendment constitutional amendments Inland Empire smuggling Whiskey Gap Trent Alley alcohol consumption contraband liquor prostitution underground economy Jazz Age Roaring Twenties popular culture 1916 1915 rumrunner Washington State history prohibition laws liquor Spokane whiskey Inland Northwest mobsters bootleggers moonshiners Puget Sound British Columbia drinking 1916 vice saloons Trent Alley Riverside railroad camps Dutch Jakes transcontinental railroad 1880s Pacific Northwest brewers beer licensing fees temperance sermons Billy Sunday Women's Christian Temperance Union WTCU Anti-Saloon League prohibitionist 18th amendment Pocatello Idaho Spokane club bootlegging 1920 speakeasy Charleston contraband Greenwood Grand Forks Ferne Cranbrook Edmund Fahey smuggling Whiskey Sixies Springdale booty John Erikson San Juan Islands Vancouver Roy Olmstead Consolidated Exporters Victoria Albert Commellini ambassador club Al Capone Commellini Junction Liberty Lake Mica Peak moonshine distillery Old Stone House corruption dry squad City Hall Maurice Smith Charles Hedger Great Depression
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Rumrunner's Paradise: Prohibition in the Northwest and Canada

The KSPS documentary Rumrunner's Paradise tells the story of how prohibition spawned a generation of entrepreneurs, lawbreakers, and profiteers in the Pacific Northwest—changing the economic and political landscape of numerous towns and cities.  

Help students explore the economic, social and political effects of Prohibition in the Pacific Northwest with these video segments and accompanying learning guide. Visit KSPS Education for additional educator resources.

 
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