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Temperance supporters around Topeka, Kansas poured alcohol into the sewers because some supporters of the temperance movement wanted to prevent consumption and production of alcohol as they thought it was a threat to the success of the country
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The 18th Amendment was added to the Constitution prohibiting production, sale, and transport of alcohol.
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Congress passed the National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act)
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Roy Olmstead, a police lieutenant bootlegged alcohol and was reffered to as "King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers" by 1920.
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William McCoy sailed a schooner with 1500 cases of alcohol from Nassau to the Savannah profiting about $15k a trip.
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Frank Mather with the treasury department, went to Nelson County in Kentucky, looking for moonshiners to arrest.
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The Boston Herald awarded two readers who invented the word for someone who ignores the law and drinks illegal alcohol "Scofflaw"
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Gangs on the streets of Chicago had 'wars' against rival gangs over control of the city's alcohol black market
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Around 1929, almost every single city in the United States had problems with the rise of gang violence
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After a major decline in the United States stock market, the entire country was thrown into an economic depression, lasting for over 10 years