Source Identification and Evaluation The first source that I will look at will be a narrative on the activities and arrest of al “scarface” Capone. Written by Guy t. Helvering who was in the Intelligence Unit Bureau of Internal Revenue Treasury Department when Al Capone was arrested, and was titled A Narrative Briefly Descriptive Of the Period 1919 to 1936. The information was released by the International Revenue Service according to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) since Al Capone was of public interest and the only IRS records to be released because of the unique set of circumstances. The purpose of this source is that it is a report on the capture of Al Capone concerning his tax evasion since it was the only legal method of capturing …show more content…
It’s purpose is that it is a letter describing all of the crimes all capone committed and how he got into power. It describes the story of Al Capone and all of the money that he had spent and the income he received. The content that I can use in this is the information on bootlegging that Al Capone had done and all the alcohol related crimes he had committed. This sources value is that it is from the Intelligence Unit and whitten in less than a month from when al capone was arrested. However, this source is limited because it is written from the bias of the government and it talks about all of Al Capone's crimes instead of focusing the information on his bootlegging …show more content…
Citizens would buy appliances, cars, would go to clubs and invest in stocks and shares. One of these leisurely activities were going out to saloons and drinking. Drinking had become a more regular activity amongst the citizens since they had more money to spend. This era did not last for long. An organization that had large influence with the government arose named the Anti-saloon league. This league was strongly against the consumption of alcohol as the name suggests and had successfully created a law that banned alcohol in America. America did not stay dry for long, secret saloons called speakeasies had started appearing across America. Before prohibition there were 15,000 saloons and after prohibition the amount of speakeasies there were were 32,000. Factors that had led up to this were public opinion, unenforced law and unpatrolled import and export, however the main cause that had lead up to the repealing of prohibition was organized crime who had snuck in and brewed illegal alcohol to distribute across the U.S.A the government and the anti-saloon league saw that prohibiting alcohol had failed and had only made bootleggers and brewers