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Moonshining & Bootlegging

  • Wiskey Rebellion

    Wiskey Rebellion
    Washington put taxes on whiskey so moonshiners and bootleggers became popular and helped people that couldn't pay for whiskey.
  • Alcohol Prohibition started

    Alcohol prohibition started in the USA so they leaned especially on moonshiners and bootleggers. During that period they became popular.
  • Al Copone

    Al Copone
    Al Copone was the head of a mafia in chicago. If some one whould interfear with his line of work with bootlegging he would sloughter them.
  • Popular

    Popular
    Moonshine was popular all over USA.
  • Great Depression Started

    Great Depression Started
    During the Great Depression moonshining and bootlegging became popular because the alcohol was rare during prohibition
  • Alcohol Prohibition ended

    Alcohol prohibition ended but moonshining and bootlegging stayed popular. The law was repealed by JFK.
  • NASCAR started

    NASCAR started
    NASCAR started because of bootleggers jacking up their cars and outrunning police and then started to race them.
  • FL moonshine

    FL moonshine
    Since made in floridia it created a hard time for bootleggers to bring booze up north.
  • Moonshiners have a hard year

    Because of the great droughts the corn prices went up and were hard to find in common stores.