Since the USA was a country of rapid industrialisation, most of the money used to invest in new businesses came from the sale of stocks This resulted in the American economy collapsing and became known as the Great Depression in which the years 1930-1933 1 in 3 men were unemployed. Due to the high unemployment level and the consequential poverty. The unemployed went to bootleggers. The bootleggers of the early 1930s did not become instant millionaires overnight, but many were able to survive on the money they made. Bank robberies escalated in the 1930s due to the depression and the techniques used were heavily influenced by the new modern technology like portable machineguns and automobiles.