THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Bootlegging is selling counterfeit designer shoes and jeans (boots/legs) to people at a high price
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Bootlegging is the practice of running away from police for any crime, no matter what it is
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Bootlegging is the illegal manufacture, sale or transport of alcohol
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Bootlegging is a game where you approach a cop, kick him in the leg with your boot, and then sip some alcohol
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Detailed explanation-2: -Intended to benefit the common good, Prohibition banned the sale and use of most alcohol from 1920 to 1933. But it did not stop Americans from drinking. Continuing and widespread public desire for alcohol had the unexpected consequence of expanding violent, organized crime.
Detailed explanation-3: -the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is bootlegging? In U.S. history, bootlegging was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period (1920–33), when those activities were forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment (1919) to the U.S. Constitution.