Bootleggers


 * Bootleggers **

@http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/Prohibition.html (link to view)
==== prohibition: the legal forbidding of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. the efforts of the WCTU led to the eighteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution. this went into effect in 1920. the force was difficult to try, it later on became unable to work. that led to the 21st amendment to be passed. prohibition ended. ==== == Book: The Young People's Encyclopedia Of The United States[] ==
 * 1) ===== prohibition was sometimes called the Noble Experiment. =====
 * 2) began after World War 1, around 1919.
 * 3) many looked for dramatic measures to improve life, such as the action to ban alcohol.

 
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 * bootlaggars are criminals who made and sold alcohol illegally! **
 * Bootleggars are people who make and sell illegal liquor while on prohibition. **
 * Bootleggers are people who smuggle alcohol mostly during prohibition. **
 * Bootleggers got this name because people would hide bottles in their shoes **
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 * []. nice picture looks like there caught dead in there tracks with liquor **
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 * Hey good information its all diffrent from one another. **
 * Nice information here. I did not know that bootleggers got their name from hiding bottles in their shoes--how interesting! Glad to see that someone chose to use a book a source. Regarding the other sources: be very careful about using wikianswers sites, wikipedia, blogs, etc. as sources... -Miss Bartoe **
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">It is believed that the term bootleg originated during the Civil War when soldiers would sneak liquor into army camps by concealing pint.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">bottles within their boots or beneath their trouser legs hence the name bootlegging.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">The term rum-running most likely originated at the

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">start of prohibition in the United States 1920–1933 when ships from the nearby island of Bimini transported cheap

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Caribbean rum to Florida speakeasies. In the picture obove you can see that the man is selling his liquor that he took in to another

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