The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which banned alcoholic beverages. This happened in a period of time in American history known as Prohibition. The result of a worldwide temperance movement during the first ten years of the 20th century. Prohibition was difficult to make happen but people pushed for it until it was passed. Bootlegging is known as the illegal production or selling of alcohol. Speakeasies are illegal hangouts where mostly men go to drink. The increase in gang violence and other crimes, like Al Capone, led to support from many people for Prohibition by the end of the roaring twenties. Al Capone was the most fierce gangster of the 1920s and possibly the most feared and successful of all time. Al Capone
