How Prohibition Created the Mafia | History
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Starting in January 1920, the United States became a dry country. Prohibition banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in an attempt to civilize unruly Americans (and some other reasons). The experiment had many unintended consequences, but most dangerously, it fostered the rise of organized crime and the American Mafia. #HistoryChannel
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A perfect example of how taxation, regulation, and prohibition of markets can lead to legitimate disaster.
guess who’s responsible for the prohibition? WOMEN! ah yes, women against husbands drinking alcohol, tale as old time.
Half of this is true, the other half is communist bullsh*t
David Barton
Alcohol has around for thousand of years before America declared independence so there’s no way Wayne Wheeler or the WTCU can banned alcohol, a complete waste of time for them.
just another example of how rich liberals think that taking away freedoms from Americans will make things more peaceful, all they ever do is make things worse and crime worse and of course its all just to make the Government Elite and their billionaire backers more richer.…while the everyday people have their rights taken away and are told its illegal to do the same thing the rich are doing.……there are millions of other things like this the everyday people pay taxes on that its ok for the elite rich to make or sell but not the everyday person.…because its all about the rich getting richer
i love beer
Murrayredmafiapiru
Mafia game Texas
me hearing the phrase “RATTLE ‘EM BOYS” repeatedly in my mind through the entire video:
meme creators: yes
I’ve heard of this so-called Mafia, a Hollywood creation. They were legitimate businessmen
is it possible limit the alcohol per person today?
People nowadays would never have the balls to cause disaster like the gangster era lol
Capone was not in mafia. They cold themselves outfit. Capone had international guys in his gang.
Lesson learned: we need to be more tough on alcohol so no one can find loopholes
It wasn’t about making “America” more peaceful; prohibition was a movement led by women — many of whom grew up in abusive households or now had abusive husbands — who wanted to remove alcohol from their husbands and make their households more peaceful. This is a major difference. Not surprisingly, this was of no concern to politicians and 100 years laters Domestic Violence is still of little concern to politicians.
Let them drink their drinks 🍷 🍻
“Paid my tax”😅
Even criminals need to pay taxes 😂
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Prohibition didnt create the mob.…the mob created prohibition to drive the costs up as well as take monopoly over alchohol sales…
Capone was not Sicilian..he could not be in the Mafia.. learn your history
Funny how they got the big guy with the tax thing. Isn’t that what the gangster were doing? Always a bigger fish and it was the US Government
Another factor that isn’t usually taken into consideration in the rise of the Mafia in 1920’s America was the rise of the Facists in Italy. The Facists exterminated the Mafia in Italy.
ahh good ol’ days.…
Whatever politicians put their f______ hands to turns into s___!!!!!!!!
IM COMING
The American Mafia consisted of those of the Dutch Race, although they came mostly out of Italy. Also true for mafioso recognized as Irish. The Three Urwetu, forbidden Races were English, and Dutch and Finnish who came out from them. Dutch was Attila The Hun, in history; Vlad The Impaler, and the Pirates of history… The “bad” or marauder Vikings were Finnish, as also the puveyors of the Communist Revolution, Stalin, Lenin and Marx; Alaric the ancient marauder, too, Finnish…
a golden era full of very important people
Now I need to watch Boardwalk Empire
Had to slip a buzzword like xenophobic in there lol clowns
Bootlegging and prohibition 18th amendment