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The U.S. Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18 , 1917. Upon being approved by a 36th state on January 16, 1919, the amendment was ratified as a part of the Constitution. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on Jan. 17, 1920.
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While it was the 18th Amendment that established Prohibition, it was the Volstead Act (passed on October 28, 1919) that clarified the law. The Volstead Act stated that "beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors" meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume. The Act also stated that owning any item designed to manufacture alcohol was illegal and it set specific fines and jail sentences for violating Prohibition.
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The rise of bootleggers such as Al Capone in Chicago highlight the darker side of prohibition. Their the a lot of illegal things going on. they were a illegal way of getting alcohol and sellling it. they had to have fast cars.
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Nascar was born from the bootleggers who had to have faster cars than the cop to run moonshine. Before you know it nascar was born. It was from the bootleggers who had to have fast cares to beat the cops.
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In 1926 Al Capone is blamed for murder of prosecuter, Billy McSwiggin.
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In 1928, the Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking. This gang went to trial for the murder of sum people and gang violance
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the great depresion is what coused the people to be so mad.
Line outside Al Capone's soup kitchen, Chicago
