The twenties are known to have been a decade of vast crime and racketeering, this is a directly due to the prohibition of alcohol. The passing of the of the 18th Amendment was supposed to mark the beginning of the "new era." In this time period there would no longer be legal sales of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Through the passing of the 18th Amendment the US government hoped to make the entire …showed first 75 words of 2430 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2430 total…by the citizens of the United States as both gangsters and celebrities. They were well known to their reporters and to the readers of the papers as well. Because they were characterized as both glamorous and brutal the leaders of organized crime in New York gained respect of the people that no other tycoons ever could have gained. The were heroes in their own right and they had achieved the American ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** n/a