Ethnic gangs had existed in the slums for decades, preying mostly on their fellow immigrants. With the arrival of Prohibition in the 1920s, an impetus was given to the formation of organized crime as it exists today. What happened immediately after the American Revolution [A] The number of...
sale, and transportationof alcoholic beverages. TheNational Prohibition Actwas ratified Jan. 16 and originally vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, only to be overruled by Congress with a 287-100 vote. Themovement for prohibitionbegan with concerns in the early 19th century about the...
Coined in the 1980s and added to the dictionary in 1990,McMansioncaught on in the late 1990s to describe the phenomenon ofhome-size growthto an average of more than 2,000 square feet in 1990. Large-scalemanufacturingoflithium-ion batteriesbegan in the early 1990s for phones, laptops and ot...