Fancy Gatsby: Mafia / Gangsters

During the 1920's prohibition there was a huge ban on

alcohol. Agents tried to get rid of it, and people started up a big

business selling it. These people were known as mafias and

gangsters. Such as Al Capone, who was a famous prohibition

gangster from Chicago.

Capone destroyed all of his competition and sold alcohol to

build a business. Of course this business he had going led to

the big bucks. Many gangsters like Al Capone and others used

many sources to scare off agents who had threatened them. Obviously though, the government

had a really hard time in the 1920's trying to get rid of alcohol with allthe gangsters and the

mafias around which is one of the big reasons why the prohibition failed. But many agents who

tried to get rid of speakeasies which were illegal bars that served alcohol were scared and

threatened alot by people who were gangsters and people in the mafia.

For mafias and gangsters, the prohibition mean a new way of making money. They created

jobs and were fahionable by the way that they had dressed and for the cars they rode in. With

the gangstersand mafia they created easy money, prostitution, and a new way of making crime

grow bigger.

American Anthem Modern American History/Ayers, de la Teja, Schulzinger, White/2007

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