What were the immediate effects of Prohibition? Check all that apply.

Bootleggers illegally made and sold alcohol.

Corruption and crime increased.

Speakeasies were the only legal places to buy alcohol.

Crime and corruption decreased.

Alcohol sales were banned in the United States.

The immediate effects of Prohibition were that bootleggers illegally made and sold alcohol, corruption and crime increased, and alcohol sales were banned in the United States.

Explanation:

Although many people believe that the Prohibition was an absolute failure, the fact is that during the decade of the 1920s the consumption of alcohol decreased by half, and remained below previous levels well into the 1940s, suggesting that socialized a good part of the population in habits of sobriety, at least temporarily. But it also had negative side effects, and was losing support progressively. Alcohol continued to be produced clandestinely and also clandestinely imported from neighboring countries, causing a considerable rise in organized crime. There were numerous cases where citizens bought liquor massively during the last weeks of the year 1919, before the law came into force on January 16, 1920, to meet their own consumption: although the law prevented the supply of alcohol, the demand It had not disappeared.

The persistence of the demand for alcoholic beverages stimulated the manufacture and sale of liquors, which became an important clandestine industry; the illegality of this practice caused the alcohol thus produced to acquire high prices on the black market, attracting to it important criminal gangs. A good example of this was Al Capone, and other heads of the Mafia that earned millions of dollars through trafficking and clandestine sales, expanding their criminal activities to almost throughout the country, and involving the corruption of numerous officials and police responsible for enforcing the Prohibition.

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