prohibition era
Time of forbidding
The prohibition era refers to any period when something is officially banned, though without capitalization it's rarely used.
The phrase almost always appears capitalized to denote the specific American historical period.
During the local prohibition era, bootleggers thrived in the county. (Capitalized Prohibition Era is the 1920–1933 American period.)
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- organized crimeStructured illegal enterprise
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
rum runner · smuggling · booze cruise · women's suffrage · 18th Amendment · racketeering · jazz age · flapper · dry laws · dry county · constitutional amendment · Eliot Ness · federal agents · underground economy · teetotalism · urban-rural divide · hooch · Charleston
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- Prohibitionspeakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy, 18th Amendment
- 1920s Musicjazz, ragtime, Charleston, Dixieland, blues
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- Mob MediaThe Godfather, Goodfellas, The Sopranos, Scarface, Casino
prohibition eraderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
drug legalization · decriminalization · laissez-faire · free market · harm reduction