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Can you use bootleg in a sentence?
"Many 1930s gangsters got rich selling bootleg liquor during Prohibition."
What were the underground nightclubs cakked where people obtained liquor illegally?
A "Speak Easy" This was a result of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition of Liquor)
What was the primary reason speakeasies thrived during the 1920s and 1930s?
Prohibition. Regular bars couldn't sell liquor anymore, so people went to the "underground" speakeasies that sold liquor illegally.
Did the eightinth amendment prohibit the buying and selling of liquor?
Yes the 18th amendment was Prohibition. Aka the ban on all liquor products.
To obtain liquor illegally drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as?
A speakeasy was an establishment that surreptitiously sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition.
When were speakeasy establishments popular?
To understand the era speakeasies were popular, you have to understand what a speakeasy is. A speakeasy is an establishment that illegally sold liquor. This type of establishment was very popular during the period known as Prohibition. The Prohibition period lasted from 1920-1933 and even longer in some states.
Bootleggers did what?
A: To carry (alcoholic liquor) on one's person illegally. B: to manufacture, sell, or transport for sale (alcoholic liquor) illegally
What did Bootleggers do?
A: To carry (alcoholic liquor) on one's person illegally. B: to manufacture, sell, or transport for sale (alcoholic liquor) illegally
Why was pronibition considered afoilure?
Prohibition of alcohol sales was a dismal failure because organized crime got rich selling liquor. Some bright person in the government figured out that prohibition was not stopping the flow of liquor all that much, but was making organized crime very rich and powerful.
What was the era called with no liquor?
Prohibition
Ban of liquor sales?
Prohibition ;)
President who had liquor in white house despite prohibition?
President Herbert Hoover visited the Belgian Embassy to drink alcohol during prohibition because it was legally Not U.S. soil and prohibition was not in effect there.
