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George Remus
Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor. He went by other names such as "king of bootleggers". He saw that his criminal clients becoming more wealthy and decided to become a criminal himself. Remus made $40 million and had about 3,000 people working for him. -
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prohibition
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William Mccoy
Rumrunning along the Atlantic coast ( rumrunning is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.) At the time he and his brother's freight business was plummeting because of all the new highways and roads so they had to find another business. McCoy then began to smuggle whiskey into the U.S., traveling from Nassau and Bimini in the Bahamas to the east coast of the United States, spending most time dealing with "Rum Row" off New Jersey. -
Frank Mather
signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams. he planned to raid a number of locations where undercover agents had previously purchased liquor. -
president
this was the president at the time of prohibition. he goes by many names such as Silent Cal, Cool Cal, The Sphinx of the Potomac, Cautious Cal. he was A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont. -
Boston herald
Boston Herald came up with a new word for people who drink illegally the word being a scofflaw -
beer wars
Al Capone is blamed for the murder of the prosecutor, Billy McSwiggin. Capone had a multimillion-dollar bootleg company. Capone earned $60 million annually selling illegal liquor. Capone was one of the biggest gangsters of his time. -
KKK march in Washington
35,000 Ku Klux Klan known as the KKK preached Americanism based on racism, anti- Catholicism, anti- Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. At its, peak in 1920, approximately 4 million people were members of the KKK. The march on Washington demonstrated the public acceptance of the KKK and its views.
Ku Klux Klan members march to show support for the KKK. -
purple gang
The Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking. This gang was also known as the "sugar house gang". They had predominately Jewish members. they were on trial for many things such as bootlegging, murder, extortion, gambling, theft and kidnapping. they imported other gangsters dor other nearby towns for "muscle". -
gang violence
gang violence is on the rise in nearly every city in the United States. That trend was unintentionally reversed by the efforts of the Prohibition movement. ... The homicide rate increased to 10 per 100,000 population during the 1920s, a 78 percent increase over the pre-Prohibition period. The Volstead Act passed to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, had an immediate impact on crime. -
stock market crash
the stock market crash started in Sept and went to oct. this happened due to production had already declined and unemployment had risen. this happened for proximity 10 years. this can also be called black Tuesday.
