How Did The Mafia Affect America

During the 1920s studies reveal that there was more bootleggers sold by crime lords across America, some of the main bosses were Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Giovanni Torrio, and Big Jim Colosimo. These bosses while they crime bosses they did some good, like reembursing store owners robbed, and they were family men. They also did terrible things, while most of the bosses hired people to kill people, some of them did the killing themselves. Big Jim Colosimo is related to Giovanni Torrio by via marrying Torrios aunt. Big Jim was the first boss of the Chicago Outfit.

First Lansky like Schultz had a rough childhood and lived in poverty. At a young age he was looking for fast ways to make money. This search for money regardless of the circumstances separates Lansky and Schultz from others at the time. He had other job opportunities but the criminal lifestyle was more lucrative and Lansky could see this at a young age. When the Prohibition laws were passed the mindset of these gangsters helped them to see the opportunity to make money from prohibition.

The 1920’s was a time period of change and a view of a better America. People for all over enjoyed the 20’s for it fashion increase, wealth and power. One of the many groups of people who enjoyed it was the gang and gangsters of the United States. Specifically al Capone a man born in new York, born in a gangster family to continue his life style. Who was al Capone?

Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17, 1899. Growing up he became a member of the Five Points Gang where his positon was a bouncer at a brothel. Capone shortly moved to Chicago and became a right-hand man for Johnny Torrio. Torrio ran a big bootlegging operation that supplied alcohol to a vast majority of places in the North.

Prohibition created organized crime groups. It took substantial organization to bootleg the extents of the alcohol people wanted. Prohibition became a failed attempt at constituting morality. Organized crime deals a lot with influence and money. People of law enforcement and politics were bribed and blackmailed.

The Mafia was an Italian organization in the 1920's. It was a crime network expanding across multiple states across the Us. It rose to power through an illegal liquor trade in a period when liquor was prohibited. The mafia was involved in drug trafficking and gambling. For example, if you owned a store, the Mafia would ask for twenty percent of all profit.

The First World War had ended in the 1920’s, but a new war was beginning on the American streets. This was known as the gang war. People were committing organized crime and there were people who were known as professional criminals. Organized crime was becoming a very big thing in Cleveland. In the 1920’s, prohibition was also going on .

Entrance into Leadership     Capone entered into the gang life at an early age under Torrio, but he did not immediately rise to power. As people do in the workforce, he struggled and clawed his way to the top after putting in countless hours doing the work for Torrio that he would later have others do for himself.     At 19, he married his baby’s mother, Mae Coughlin, and moved to Baltimore with a vow to make a good life for he and his family. After his father unexpectedly died, however, he relocated to Chicago in 1920 and became reunited with his former boss, Johnny Torrio (“Al Capone,” History.com). Torrio had become fairly successful within the gambling and prostitution businesses, but after the 18th was passed, outlawing the sale and consumption of alcohol, Torrio saw a more promising opportunity, however, Torrio abandoned his organization when he was almost killed in an assassination attempt in 1925 (“Al Capone,” History.com).

). Al Capone was a gangster during the 1900’s. I would consider him to be an entrepreneurial type of person because, he owned restaurants in New York and ran his own gang. Al Capone even gave out free food to individuals in his community. In 1930 his restaurant gave 3,500 individuals food because they were in need of a meal.

Ratified on January 16, 1919, the 18th amendment outlawed the transportation, sale, and manufacture of alcohol in the United States. The goal of prohibition was to lower crime rates. Conversely, it caused crime rates to skyrocket. Speakeasies, illegal bars, popped up all over the nation. One of the most famous men to run these clubs was Alphonse Capone.