The illegal distillation and selling of alcoholic beverages, sometimes known as bootlegging, spread after the Eighteenth Amendment took effect. This was the Prohibition.
The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, and it went into effect on January 17, 1920. The Eighteenth Amendment demonstrated the Progressives' faith in the ability of the federal government to handle social ills.
Although proponents of prohibition claimed that outlawing the sale of alcohol would reduce crime, organized crime actually increased as a direct result of prohibition because the law did not expressly prohibit the consumption of alcohol, leading many US citizens to build up private stocks of beer, wine, and liquor before the ban's implementation.
After the eighteenth century, bootlegging—the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages—became widespread.
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