USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition ended the legal sale of liquor and thereby created demand for an illicit supply. 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-2: -Prohibition was enacted to protect individuals and families from the “scourge of drunkenness.” However, it had unintended consequences including: a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Al Capone, Mob boss in Chicago, is the most infamous gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era. When Chicago Outfit boss Johnny Torrio quit and turned control over to him after the violent “beer wars” in Chicago in 1925, Capone was only 26 years old.