Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Black Duck

Research on the internet the 1920-30s Prohibition times. Try to find as many interesting facts on Speakeasies, rum-running, etc. List 5 facts on this blog about the 'old days', so to speak.

31 comments:

  1. Gadget Charlie Dog says
    spekeasys were aganist the law.
    Ships 3 mile out were exempt.
    Whiskey was also for medicinal purposes.
    Grapes were used for wine.
    Prohibition was ended in 1933

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  2. ArmiBoi95☺♣○♥October 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    1they had to sell soda pops at the local taverns.
    2it was fine to make moonshine and beer in the house you own.
    3they use to sell to local taverans untill they got cars.
    4there use to be two bars in lasalle ill.
    5cops use to come in as undercover and by a drink then arrest them.

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  3. Speak easies were founded in the 1920's every night a average worker could make up to 400$ a day. One dollar a day was alot of money. I mean like maybe buy a car. Four hundred dollars thats alot bro. They payed police 40$ for the police to not talk about or arrest and supects trying to rum run to the speak easy. Rum running is a illegal way of selling achol. During the prohobiton days the people in the united states were not allowed to drink or have postions of alchol

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  4. sppekeasy they always did their meetings in a secret place where no one would ever suspect they were there they would have alcohol down where they were at because they weren't supposed to have it it was illegal to have alcohol in the town or anywhere the people were relying on alcohol to much during the deep deprresion and they just took away alcohol from everywhere.

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  5. 1. There were very HARSH punishments for someone who goes wrong during the prohibition. EXAMPLES: 1: Get hung by your tounge by a plane. 2: tortured. 3: forced to swallow two ounces of Caster Oil.

    2. The KKK supported the prohibition.

    3. The speakeasy got its name because one had to whisper a code word or name through a slot in a locked door to gain admittance

    4. Prohibition clearly benefited some people. Notorious bootlegger Al Capone made $60,000,000...that's sixty million dollars...per year (untaxed!) while the average industrial worker earned less than $1,000 per year.

    5. Although Prohibition was repealed 75 years ago, there are still hundreds of dry counties across the United States today.

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  6. hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
    exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
    excluded from any and all churches
    forbidden to marry
    tortured
    branded
    whipped
    sterilized
    tattooed
    placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares
    forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil
    executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.

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  7. ♥Taylor Faletti♥October 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    The "Black Duck" is a relley good book. It is about people booklegging on Tyler's landing they were bootlegging on the shore.And they found a dead guy and they shot him and i think they shot him because they wanted some thing that wasent there.So then his friend and him whent to the cops and told them but when they whent there it was gone. So they they didnt belive them that there was a dead body.So the kid whent around interviwing people that lived aroun there and they found nothing.

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  8. Whats up mr. h. The Black Duck is a good book its intresting touching with a little kick of sad. like when viola got shot that was super sad. It is also very suspenseful. all the action that happens is super awsome. When Ruben went on that job and saw Mr. Riley there and how Mr. Riley got arrested. Well here are some facts i found about those things. Rum-running was 1 of the $$$$$ making businesses back in the day. another 1 is that 1 prohibition on Prince Edward Island lasted from 1901 up until 1948. i also found out that guys used girls for the smuggling so 5-0 a.k.a cops wouldnt really suspect anything. And 1 of the most famous periods of rum-running began in the United States
    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    with the 18th AmendmentEighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    Amendment XVIII of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act , established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 29, 1919....
    (ratified January 16, 1919) and the Volstead ActVolstead Act
    The Volstead Act, which reinforced the prohibition of alcohol in the United States of America, was popularly named after Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversaw its passage....
    (passed October 28, 1919). ProhibitionProhibition
    Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol....
    began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. This period lasted until the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of the Twenty-first AmendmentTwenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
    The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition in the United States....
    , on December 5, 1933. Pip-pip cherio tah-tah
    peace out.

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  9. ♥Tiffany Faletti♥October 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    1.They always did their meatings on the shore.
    2.They would have alcohl down there where it wasnt illegal in that state.
    3.When the poliec come the boat leaves realy fast and they cant fined the boat where it whent to.
    4.Some people get cought but then they are released qand the guy named charley is taken to prisome.
    5.But when their manager gets arestid they dont get paid and they wont work for him agina.

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  10. speak easies were found ed in the 1920,s about every night people would try to take in goods.In about 1925-30s there were about 100,000 speak easies in the country at the time.In the 1920 ,1930s people would get some times if they had goods they would about $1370 per month.One man was even caught hustling liqour over the border in two boxes of eggs: He had drained the eggs of their original content and refilled them with liqour. And many average American's became criminals during the age of Prohibition.

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  11. speakeasys where establishments that sold alchoholic beverages during prohibition. Also, I found out that LaSalle has had many hidden speakeasys over the years. Speakeasys started when the U.S. prohibited alchohol in the 1920s- 30s. So, people started making underground bars that sold alchohol so the authority wouldnt know about it. And the got their alchohol from boat that shipped in alchohol from diffrent places. this was known as "rummrunning" or "bootlegging". So people could have thier alchohol, and speakeasy owners could make a prophit. This information is all mentioned in the book Black Duck.

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  12. there were speakesaies in illinios.
    rum runners were people who shiped eligal alcohol in the 20's.
    a famous rum runner was william S. McCoy.
    by 1929 rum running was at its highest.

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  13. The prohibition was the 18th amendmet to the constution and was later canceled out by another amendment.
    The alcohal was mainly transported from canada by the great lakes.
    Some wine was still sold for religus reasons but only through the goverment.
    Families had taken to making their own and this was legal in small amounts.
    People who had alcohol before the prohibition could still Have it because the prohibition it only banned the sale, manufacturing, and transport.

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  14. the red hot chiili pepersOctober 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    the speakeses that they try to hide a hiden achool in thier basment so the cops doesn't know that they are selling it ilegali. they use achool to get money because pepole during this time alot of pepole lost thier jobs so they selled ilegal achool to get money. sometimes so the legers dont get caught and go to jail they bribe the police.some pepole just did it top get money. a bissness that doesnt have good is a boot leger to get more money.

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  15. -Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect -During Prohibition the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.
    -Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.
    -Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
    -The sale of alcohol was illegal, alcoholic drinks were still widely available at speakeasies and other underground drinking establishments.
    -Legal and illegal home brewing was popular during Prohibition.

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  16. 1.speakeasies are hiddenbars pubs wine cellers
    2.thay hid the wine cellers and bars becouse it was elegal to have or produce alical
    3.the black duck was a spead boat used to transport rum in to the us nown as a rumrunner
    4.thar wher spealeasies in almost everey camunitey
    5.people who couldant aford markted booze often learned to make thare own

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  17. 1. at any building on 52nd st between 5th and 6th avenue you could get a glass of liquor.
    2. people started using other means of transportaion of liquor like hip flasks,hot water bottles.
    3. one guy transported liqur by taking out the contents of eggs and filling the egg shells with liquor.
    4. sometimes called blind pigs.
    5. in 2007 they found an old speakeasie in a house in washington D.C.

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  18. -most people never stopped drinking during the prohibitation.
    -speakeasies had secret and exclusive passwords to get in.
    -Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition. One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank should be:

    hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
    exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
    excluded from any and all churches
    forbidden to marry
    tortured
    branded
    whipped
    sterilized
    tattooed
    placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares
    forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil
    executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation
    -Although Prohibition was repealed 75 years ago, there are still hundreds of dry counties across the United States today

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  19. 1.there were speakeasy,it was like hidden bars that had rum
    2.there was also rum running,rum running was people who brought rum in the states were rum was illegal.
    3.moonshine,also known as "hooch" and "white lightning," was illegally produced, especially in the southern states and Appalachia.
    4.cops were also involed in rumrunning.
    5.they also had casino bouts with rum

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  20. 1.speakeasies were hidden in shops
    2.rum-running was illigal but certain people still did it
    3.Rum-running is the business of smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages illegally, usually to circumvent taxation or prohibition. The term usually applies to transport of goods over water, over land it is commonly referred to as bootlegging.
    4.The term most likely originated at the start of Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), when ships from the nearby island of Bimini transported cheap Caribbean rum to Florida speakeasies.
    5.But rum's cheapness made it a low-profit item for the rum-runners, and they soon moved on to smuggling Canadian whiskey, French champagne and English gin to major cities like New York and Boston, where prices ran high.

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  21. Facts:
    1.blind tiger is a term for an establishment similar to a speakeasy.
    2. Prohabition was the 18th Emendment.
    3.Moonshine is a common term for home-distilled alcohol.
    4.By the middle of the decade there were thought to be 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone.
    5.Some bootleggers stold liquor from governement warehouses.

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  22. 1 fact:speakeasies are a place for the illegal sale and consumptin of alcoholic drinks.
    2:rum-running is the business of smugglnig or tarnsport of alcoholic beverages
    3:black duck:the hardeist boat to find goes 40 mph
    4:police corupption: were the police will work for the rum runners and cover for them
    5:bootleggers:are people that smuggle rum and other alcohalic drinks

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  23. al capone Italian Mastermind who controlled Chicago for the majority of the late 20's and 30's. Kept his friends close and his enemies even closer. The most powerful gangster of all time.was also known as "Scarface". Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s.was a Powerful gangster of the 1920-30's who ran a successful, illegal bootlegging operation. Oddly, he was eventually taken down for income tax evasion in 1931.

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  24. MISS.FABULOUS AKA LAURA ♥♥♥♥♥October 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM

    -Females advanced in the work force as more women began to get hired for office jobs.

    -The flapper, a sign of the 1920's, characterized the changes that were occurring in the decade.

    -In the 1920's the world experienced several revolutions in areas such as music and new scientific discoveries

    -Archbishop of Naples pointed a blaming finger at short skirts

    -the selling, creating, and moving of alcoholic beverages was made illegal in the U.S.

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  25. The Prohibition of the 1920s was ineffective because it was unenforceable, it caused the growth of crime to become a major concern and it increased the amount of alcohol consumption. lots of gangs become more aggresive. all alcohol was put to an end. all buisness was at a major turning point it got so bad that they started to hide beer in hidden coolers so when the police raid there buisness they wont be able to find them. the prohibition was a bad time for people who own bars because without beer they wont be able to make any money so what they did was contiue with there buisness.

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  26. The prohibition ere started in 1923 until the 1933. Rum running goes from New England to Canada.Speakeasys were clubs that were hard to find from law.Civilians died from rum running for interfering with there stuff

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  27. During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America.Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred.
    In 1919, the requisite number of legislatures of the States ratified The 18th Amendment to the Federal Constitution, enabling national Prohibition within one year of ratification.

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  28. 1. Speakeasies were formed in the 1920's as a means to get around the everyday hassle of law enforcement watching for people to violate the 18th Amendment. As a result of Prohibition, the speakeasy was an established institution

    2. person or ship engaged in smuggling liquor from other place called rum-running

    3.the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption.

    4.. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

    5.. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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  29. Hey Mr. Hanson -- Bob Smiley here. Don't ask me how, but I saw you named my Tiger book one of your current faves on your sidebar. Much appreciated and glad you enjoyed it!

    Sincerely,
    Bob Smiley

    forerightbob@gmail.com

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  30. watt key said
    i am so glad that you and your class read my books i loved nathan morrells letter.

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  31. the black duck was the most confusing , adventurous, scariest book ever and who ever reads it will loveit its the best book ever!!!!!!!!

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