Prohibition Gangsters
Prohibition & Gangsters Prohibition and the gangsters are an integral part of Americas history in the 1920. ... Prohibition, called "the noble experiment" by Herbert Hoover, had come at last. ... Gangsters invested their profits in countless other businesses, both legitimate and illegitimate. ... As a result of the lack of enforcement of the Prohibition Act and the creation of an illegal industry an increase in crime happened. The Prohibitionists hoped that the Volstead Act would decrease drunkenness in America and thereby decrease the crime rate, in large cities and towards the beginning of Prohibition this seemed to work, the crime rate soon rose to nearly twice that of the pre-prohibition period. ... 6 in the pre-prohibition period, to nearly 10 during prohibition, nearly a 78 percent increase.