Prohibition: The Roaring 1920s Forbidden Booze Empire — Bootlegging & Moonshine

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9 min readMay 17, 2023
Americans celebrated the end of Prohibition in a “real two-fisted manner” — 1933. (Source: Wikimedia Commons).

Part 1: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

The Political Angle

Prohibition, the nationwide ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages, was an ambitious social experiment rooted in moral and political motivations.

Spearheaded by the temperance movement, which gained significant traction in the early 20th century, Prohibition was seen as a means to eradicate the perceived social ills associated with alcohol consumption.

The Volstead Act implemented and provided an enforcement apparatus for the Eighteenth Amendment, which forbade the manufacture, transportation, and sale of “intoxicating beverages.” Circumvention of the law led to bootlegging and the rise of organized crime. Act of October 28, 1919. (Source: Wikimedia Commons).

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