With Prohibition ending drinking became legal again.
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Al Capone -Al Capone was and American gangster. - He was born on 1899 and lived until 1947. -He was born in Brooklyn New York. Growing up, Al Capone like other children was taught that money was power but seen he relisted that he would never be able to have it because of discrimination. he would never reach his goal or so he thought. -Capone was a natural leader he earned respect through rewarding. -After Johnny Torrio fled the country, Capone found himself in control of part of the bootleg operation in the city that had sprung up after prohibition. Bootlegging -Bootlegging was the act of transporting alcohol during the 1920 -The Eighteenth Amendment band alcohol in the united states -7,000 speak-easies which are like undercover bars -The operations varied in size, from an intricate network of bootlegging middlemen and local suppliers, right up to America's bootlegging king, George Remus, who operated from Cincinnati, lived a lavish lifestyle, and amassed a $5 million fortune. -During the bootlegging area crime was at an all time high, gangs fought for bootlegging turf in Chicago, 800 gang members were killed. -Gangsters brought liquor from other countries and ran it through Detroit and Canada. -Bribery was real big during this ear some officer, you could make up to 300,000 a month Prohibition -During the begin of prohibition -Despite the Wickersham Commission report, Hoover continued to defend prohibition. The 1932 Republican Party platform pledged continued enforcement of the law, but it also gave tepid support to a qualified proposal for a constitutional amendment that would allow states to exempt themselves from national prohibition. -President Herbert Hoover had a presidential commission under go a study of prohibition and the general problem of crime. -Congress acted on a prohibition repeal amendment even before Roosevelt took office. -The Volstead Act to created, sale, and taxation of beer with 3.2 percent alcohol content. Promptly adopted, the Beer Bill made weak beer legal beginning April 7, 1933. -Voters preference for prohibition repeal.
