1920's and prohibition

  • 18th amendment is ratified

  • drug company set up to gain access to bonded liquor

  • "rum running" trade

  • purple gang goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking

  • gang violence rises in every city

  • stock market crash

  • valentines day massacre

  • Period: to

    great depression

  • 21 amendment repealing prohibition is ratified