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In the 1920s Chicago's bad economy and prohibition led an opportunity for criminals to produce illegal businesses.In other words Despite the legal pressure, police action and competition from rival gangs Al Capone still managed to established his illegal Alcohol business. The mayor of Chicago tried to run Al Capone out of Chicago because he thought Al Capone was bad for the mayors political image.

Al Capone "Scarface" was involved in two gangs when he was a kid one gang was called the Brooklyn rippers and the other was called the forty thieves juniors. He also dropped out of school when he was fourteen and he was in sixth grade. He lived in a bad neighborhood and then he joined another gang in Manhattan they were called the notorious five points. He also worked at the Harvard in as the bouncer and as a bartender. In the year 1918 Al Capone met a girl named Mary Mae Coughlin at a dance.On December 4, 1918, Mae gave birth to their son, Albert "Sonny" Francis. Capone and Mae married that year on December 30. Al Capone arrived in Chicago in 1919. Due to murdering two guys he also sent a rival gang member to the hospital. Yale; the guy he worked for send him to Chicago to meet with his great friend John Torrio. He then moved his family into a house while Al Capone worked for John Torrio. John Torrio had Al Capone managing his business as a bootlegger,originally it came from concealing hip flasks of alcohol in the legs of the boots. In 1922 he became John Torrios top partner. After John Torrio got shot he left Chicago meaning he'd leave Al Capone as boss.

This paragraph is about the debate. . Al capone was fighting against many rivals but still continued his illegal business. In other words Due to prohibition the united States it experienced a massive increase in crime as illegal business increased. The enormous profits that were made in producing and providing illegal alcohol resulted in the development of professional criminals and gangs. Racketeers and gansters competed for illegal business resulting in violence across the nation.Due to prohibition there was A major breakout between Dry Vs.Wets. Dry; meaning supporting prohibition and Wets; meaning Alcohol supporters.Even before the 18th Amendment was ratified, about 65 percent of the country had already banned alcohol. In 1916, seven states adopted anti-liquor laws, bringing the number of states to 19 that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.National Prohibition was defended as a war measure. The amendment's proponents argued that grain should be made into bread for fighting men and not for making liquor. Unsuccessfully, the brewing industry argued that taxes on liquor were paying more for the war effort than were liberty bonds. Yet even after Prohibition was enacted, many ethnic Americans viewed beer or wine drinking as an integral part of their culture, not as a vice. The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture and sale (but not the possession, consumption, or transportation) of "intoxicating liquors." Many brewers hoped that the ban would not apply to beer and wine. But Congress was controlled by the drys, who advocated a complete ban on alcohol. A year after the ratification, Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which defined intoxicating beverages as anything with more than 0.5 percent alcohol. This meant that beer and wine, as well as whiskey and gin, were banned from being legally sold. Enforcing the law proved almost impossible. Smuggling and bootlegging were widespread. Enforcement of Prohibition was originally assigned to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); hence, the enforcement agents who destroyed moonshine stills were called “revenuers.”

In conclusion the prohibition of alcohol it was destined to be destroyed. It was a violent public issue of the 1920s caused by liquor.Prohibition failed because it was unenforceable. By 1925, half a dozen states, including New York, passed laws banning local police from investigating violations. Prohibition had little support in the cities of the Northeast and Midwest. Prohibition did briefly pay some public health dividends. The death rate from alcoholism was cut by 80 percent by 1921 from pre-war levels, while alcohol-related crime dropped markedly. Nevertheless, seven years after Prohibition went into effect, the total deaths from adulterated liquor reached approximately 50,000, and there were many more cases of blindness and paralysis.In 1927, there were an estimated 30,000 illegal speakeasies--twice the number of legal bars before Prohibition. Many people made beer and wine at home. It was relatively easy finding a doctor to sign a prescription for medicinal whiskey sold at drugstores. Popular culture glamorized bootleggers like Chicago's Capone. These symbols served as the model for the central characters in such films as //Little Caesar// and //Scarface//. In rural areas, moonshiners became folk heroes. The fashion of the flapper, dancing the Charleston in a short skirt, was incomplete without a hip flask.

A short term effect is Immediately after the 18th Amendment went into effect there was a dramatic decrease in alcohol consumption that made many advocates hopeful that it would be a success. Another thing is "The Great" prohibition experiment failed. During prohibition era The city of Chicago was going thrue depression. It had many killings Nd murdereeds And gangs all aroung. Many killed for liqour. Gangs /mafia built underground illegal business not only in chicago but thrue out the country. The most notorious killing that Al Capone was involved in was the St. Valentines Day Massacre, because Al Capone's men killed seven of the members of Moran's gang, the six of them were from moran's gang and the other guy was a friend. Al Capone's first time in prison was because he was carrying a gun in May 1929. At midnight, January 16, 1920, the United States went dry; breweries, distilleries, and saloons were forced to close their doors.

This paragraph is about how Al Capone affected people in the present time. He affected people in the present time because of all the killings they had back then everyone saw Al Capone as the bad guy. Because he made it on the top 21 most wanted. He killed a lot of people and did a lot of bad things that made him seem bad he went to jail a lot but never more than a few days. When he got arrested for carrying around a gun in public it looked bad towards him because it makes people think that he hes a bad guy. the mayor of Chicago wanted to run Al Capone out of Chicago because he was a bad political image on the mayor. He had a lot of people out to get him when he did crimes.He gaved the name to Chicago As a Lawless City. Even today, people debate about the impact of Prohibition rages. Critics argue that the amendment failed to eliminate drinking, made drinking more popular among the young, spawned organized crime and disrespect for the law, encouraged solitary drinking, and led beer drinkers to hard liquor and cocktails.Alcohol still remains a serious cause of death, disability, and domestic abuse.

This paragraph is about what I learned about 1920's Prohibition and Al Capone. What I learned about Al Capone is that he grew up in a bad neighborhood he was a smart boy but dropped out of school when he was fourteen after assaulting a teacher. He wasn't so much of a bad guy what made him a bad guy was what he Did. He was a responsible man and took care of the things he needed to take care of.He gaved people also knowed as crimnals or gangs the opportunity to make money from moonshines,Bootleggers, and Speakeasies. He made drinking kind of possible because he started the tunnel in the undergrounds of Chicago. He owned a lot of businesses and had a lot of people that were trying to send him to jail or prison and get him in trouble. What i learned of prohibition was that was that that it was intentially to stop the outcomes of liquor. Because of liquor many became abusers,spended their weekly earning in Alcohol and ended Up sick or alcoholics by consuming many liquor. prohibition was knowed as the goverments biggest mistake because it brought depression,killings,illegal business and made the goverment look weak. this was not only brought in Chicago but throughout the U.S. states.

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