THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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Radicals
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Brandishers
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Bootleggers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This word comes from bootleg and, in particular, the trick of hiding a flask inside a boot. 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: -Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III’s reign, derived from the smugglers’ custom of hiding packages of valuables in the legs of their large sea-boots when dodging the king’s coastguardsmen.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -: a person who makes or sells alcoholic liquor illegally.