WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After the Eighteenth Amendment went into force, bootlegging, or the illegal distillation and sale of alcoholic beverages, became widespread.

Detailed explanation-2: -The rise of mass disobedience to prohibition laws took the amendment’s advocates by surprise. People who could afford the high price of smuggled liquor flocked to speakeasies and gin joints.

Detailed explanation-3: -The amendment came as a result of roughly a century of reform movements. Early temperance advocates aimed to reduce alcohol consumption and prevent alcoholism, drunkenness, and the disorder and violence it could result in. Theses early efforts promoted temperate consumption with hopes for eventual prohibition.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Italian American Mafia has long dominated organized crime in the United States. Each crime family has its own territory and operates independently, while nationwide coordination is overseen by the Commission, which consists of the bosses of each of the strongest families.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Canadian West had organized groups involved in horse thieving, castle rustling and whiskey trading, which all led to the creation of the Canadian Mounted Royal Police. Schneider offers multiple stories of Canadian bootleggers during the US prohibition era. Canadian organized crime remains today centered on trade.

Detailed explanation-6: -Which of the following contributed to the failure of prohibition? Crime connected with illegal alcohol production and sale became a major issue so that even many people who had originally supported Prohibition decided that it needed to be repealed.