Bootleggers



Bootleggers

Bootleggers of the 1920s were drinkers who hid flasks of liquor in the leg of their boots or suppliers of illegal alcohol. Many bootleggers were stressed out workers affected by the prohibition or luxury living corporate owners. These people were sometimes addicted and desperate for alcohol. Since the 18th Amendment made the production or sale of alcohol illegal many people were angered and continued to find a way to get alchohol. Either they brewed their own liquor or bought it from other families, but the illegal circulation of liquor increased as many people were addicted to it. Bars called speakeasies were illegally operated and you could find many bootleggers here. Gathering places such as these flourished in the cities.

Information provided by: http://bootlegger1920.tripod.com/ America Pathway to the Present pg. 468 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers

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