Prohibition

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  • The 18th Amendment

    The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which delcared the production, transport and sale of alcohol illegal..

  • The Volstead Act

    The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, is passed on October 28, 1919.

  • The Circle

    Lawyer George Remus moves to Cincinnati to set up a drug company to gain legal access to bonded liquor

  • The Good Bootlegger

    Roy Olmstead bootlegged alcohol while serving as police lieutenant. Roy Olmstead had become King of the Puget Sound Bootleggers

  • Rum Row

    William McCoy, a Florida skipper, pioneered the “rum-running” trade by sailing a schooner loaded with 1500 cases of liquor from Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas to Savannah

  • Kentucky Stills

    Frank Mather signs on with treasury department to scour Nelson County, Kentucky for moonshiners, arresting them and dumping their whiskey into local streams

  • Scofflaw

    Four years after Prohibition was first imposed, the Boston Herald offered $200 to the reader who came up with a brand-new word for someone who flagrantly ignored the edict and drank liquor that had been illegally made or illegally sold

  • Purple Gang Trial

    Purple Gang of Detroit, Michigan, goes to trial for bootlegging and highjacking

  • Stock Market Crash

    New York Stock exchange crashes

  • The 21st Amendment

    Prohobition Ends