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GCSE History · key term
The illegal production, transport or sale of alcohol.
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Revise: Divided SocietyAlongside bootlegging, it operated gambling and prostitution businesses. Bribery helped protect his activities: police and officials could be paid to ignore offences, while intimidation discouraged witnesses from reporting crimes. Election-rigging helped keep friendly officials in power.
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The illegal production, transport or sale of alcohol, particularly associated with US prohibition.
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Illegal production, sale and smuggling—bootlegging—supplied this demand. Around 32,000 speakeasies operated in New York in 1929, illustrating the scale of evasion.