speakeasies



A speakeasy was an bar that illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the time period known as the "jazz age." Prohibition was still going on during this time it started in 1918 and went through 1933. Prohibition was when the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol was illegal. Speakeasies were a way to get around the prohibition law and receive alcohol illegally.

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