18th Amendment - Made the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal, but it did not outlaw the actual consumption (drinking) of alcohol, Speakeasy - Illegal bars. They sold illegal alcoholic beverages., Bootlegger - People who made and transported alcohol during Prohibition. They smuggled it into cities and towns. They sold their jugs and bottles of illegally made alcohol to speakeasies., Organized Crime - Criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale., 21st Amendment - In 1933 it repealed the 18th Amendment and made alcohol legal again., Prohibition - The action of forbidding something, especially by law, Volstead Act - The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the 18th Amendment, Negative Impacts of Prohibition - Unsafe Alcohol leading to poisoning, organized crime, increase violence, corruption in government and the police, speakeasies, more everyday people engaged in illegal activies,

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