USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bootleggers smuggle illegal things, and sometimes legal goods too, in order to avoid paying taxes. During Prohibition in the U.S., bootleggers supplied speakeasies with alcohol.

Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest bootleggers began smuggling foreign-made commercial liquor into the United States from across the Canadian and Mexican borders and along the seacoasts from ships under foreign registry.

Detailed explanation-3: -In order to smuggle alcohol into New York during Prohibition, a common trick among bootleggers was to hide bottles of booze in crates of sugar before making the daring journey across the Saint Lawrence River from Canada to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the alcohol would be smuggled into the United States, across the border and by sea. A visible symptom of Prohibition was “Rum Row.” Smugglers lined the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, where foreign-flagged mother ships brought tons of liquor to the United States.