Organized Crime Organized Crime originated during the “Roaring Twenties.” During the twenties there was a Religious Revolution and a Women’s Temperance Movement that convinced the U.S. Government to make the 18th amendment, which banned the manufacturing, and the sale of alcohol. However it didn’t ban the consumption of alcohol. This was called prohibition. The United States during the late twenties through out the thirties suffered from great economic losses. During those years …showed first 75 words of 1170 total…

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