Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
This series is about love of country, our flag and our Constitution and as such at each cache in this series you will be able to spot an American flag from the GZ. Solve the puzzle to obtain the coordinates for the final location. The final container is less than a mile from Stage I. Many thanks to Sally Sedona for agreeing to help with maintenance of this cache.
Amendment 18
Prohibits sale and consumption of alcohol
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3.This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission herof to the States by the Congress.
The idea of Prohibition arose because in the 1920s many people, mostly deeply religious middle-class women, thought that getting rid of the “devil’s drink” would bring back godly virtues and produce many positive outcomes.
After the Civil War there was an enormous influx of immigrants into the United States, and they brought with them many new kinds of alcohol that was sold through their business ventures in shops and saloons. Housewives became increasingly disgusted with the gambling, prostitution, violence and debauchery that they would read about and witness on a daily basis, so they formed organizations, such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League and the Prohibition Party, to try to protect their husbands and children from the dangers of alcohol.
The first state to introduce prohibition was the largely Protestant state of Maine, passing it into law in 1851. By the time of the World War I, nearly half of the states in the country had enacted prohibition laws, believing it would reduce violence and poverty. The combination of religious fever along with a terrible world war gave both houses of Congress the votes needed to pass into law, in spite of a veto by President Woodrow Wilson, and America had to put down her drinks and close her saloons as of January 16, 1920.
Prohibition gave rise to bootlegging and the American Mafia organized crime syndicate. Speakeasies, concealed distilling and distribution of alcohol flourished and became their own mini economies. Foreign-made commercial liquor came into the US via Canada, Mexico and anywhere along the coast where the bootleggers could load up and race to the shore in high-speed boats to outrun the Coast Guard. Mafia gangs could control an entire local chain of concealed distilleries and transport channels. Initially these gangs were territorial and sought to gain monopolies, but eventually gangs in different cities began to cooperate and extended their distribution methods into narcotics traffic, gambling rackets, loan-sharking, extortion, prostitution and labor racketeering.
In 1929, the stock market crashed, increasing the country’s desire for illegal liquor. As the Great Depression ground on, the enforcement of Prohibition became impossible and it faded as a political issue. In March of 1933, newly elected President Roosevelt amended the Volstead Act with “the beer bill,” allowing the manufacturing and sale of low-alcohol beer and wines. Nine months later, on December 5, 1933, Prohibition was repealed at the federal level with the ratification of the 21st Amendment. Organized crime continued long after the amendment's repeal.
Fill in the numbers to crime family trivia to get the final cache coordinates.
N 35° AB.2CD
W 111° E0.1F2
A and B: The answer is Nov 11. Providing answer as apparently there is conflicting info on internet.
C: George Kelly Barnes, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was an American gangster from Memphis, TN. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. He died in Leavenworth Penitentiary on July 18, 195(C).
D: Eugene Gotti was a mobster in the Gambino crime family. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1989 for racketeering and drug trafficking charges. He was released in 201(D).
E: On January 25, 19(E)7, Al Capone died of a cardiac arrest in Miami Beach, Florida.
F: On the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino, mobster Albert Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 195(F).
Checker: If you add up the numbers in the answers, using each number only once (A+B+C+D+E+F), you should get 25.
FTF: Sally Sedona and carefreelady!
Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia