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(This excert was written in 2009)
The 1920s had many names such as the Roaring 20s, the Jazz Age, and the Age of Intolerance. The 1920s separated the world wars. Many things happened in the Roaring Twenties, such as the sinking of the ship Titanic (1912), the invention of stainless steel (1913), the completion of the Panama Canal (1914) and women received the right to vote by the 19th Amendment, but they still had little interest in politics. In 1919, the eighteenth Amendment passed the act of Prohibition, which made drinking or even possessing alcohol illegal. The general reason for this amendment was to lower crime and to improve the general status of life, but the opposite thing happened. Crime increased as people rebelled against not being able to drink alcohol. Many illegal bars were created to provide drinks for the people that required alcoholic beverages. This time period also included bathtub gin and other homemade alcohols. Gangsters profited during this decade by smuggling alcohol and distributing it to different illegal businesses. Al Capone was one of these gangsters who made $105 million a year by smuggling alcohol into the United States. Soon, the 1920s finally ended but little did people know that it was the starting of the Great Depression. This was written by 1ofmany. this was written in 2009.