Life during the 20's was difficult for many who were living during that time. After the prohibition act went into effect, there were many more crimes committed after alcohol was ban. People were very unhappy with the government, so they went behing their backs seceretly and started bootlegging alcohol. There were also parlors where you could get alcohol by walking up to the door and whispering a password to guy on the other side of the door, those were called speak easies. While the rate of bootlegging was largely increasing, so was the number of murders. Many people had the same ideas, they wanted to be the number one seller.
By researching and reading papers for my essay, I realized just how hard life could have been back in the 20's. Many people lose family and friends because of alcohol and drugs. I think i would have rather not lived back then, crime these days seem to be less brutal and don't turn out in such a bad way. I would rather live in peace at my house, rather than get shot out on the streets because of alcohol
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