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Bootleggers & Gangsters

WHAT

Gangsters

  • Feared and revered, these American gangsters often controlled liquor sales, gambling, and prostitution, while making popular, silk suits, diamond rings, guns, booze and broads.
  • These many men, though often murderers and outright robbers, were sometimes also involved in the political, social, and economic conditions of the times.

Bootleggers

Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.

Bootleggers

WHO

Al Capone

  • American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition era.
  • Capone quit school after the sixth grade and began to associate with a notorious street gang.
  • About 1920, at Johnny Torrio’s invitation, Capone joined him in Chicago where he had become an influential lieutenant with his uncle, Giacomo “Big Jim” Colosimo, a major crime boss and pimp.

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

  • A Jewish American mobster
  • Known as one of the most “infamous and feared gangsters of his day”
  • He became one of the first front-page-celebrity gangsters.
  • Was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.

WHEN/WHERE

The 3 Largest Sites:

  • Chicago
  • New York City
  • Atlanta

HOW/WHY

  • The Prohibition prompted the illegal activity of bootlegging.
  • Economic Depression: Jobs were scarce and people needed to provide for their families, gangsterism was dangerous but provided an easy way to make money.
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