Prohibition

From 1920-1933 enough important people agreed that alcohol should be prohibited to make it happen. However instead of keeping citizens more under control, the law only made people more desperate for alcohol. People that got to be called bootleggers set up illegal shops where people could buy alcohol at higher prices. The locations where this business happened came to be known as speakeasies. The original purpose was to prevent Americans from consuming alcohol, but the plan backfired badly.


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