What kind of profession were Bootleggers involved with?

Bootlegging, in U.S. history, illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation. The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Native Americans. The term entered into the wider American vocabulary when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution effected the national prohibition of alcohol from 1920 until its repeal in 1933.

The Whig Party was founded in the winter of 1833-1834 in Washington by national republicans such as Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, as well as Southerners such as W. P. Mangum. Initially the Whig party had as its axis of action the opposition to policies headed by Andrew Jackson, especially the transfer of the deposit of the Second Bank of the United States. The party also attracted the support of rights defenders from Southern states, such as John Tyler, offended by the strong nationalism that Jackson maintained against South Carolina during the Nullification crisis. The Whigs also promoted the supremacy of Congress over the executive actions taken by Jackson, such as moving deposits from the bank without the consent of Congress, or vetoing the bank's recharge. Ridiculing "King Andrew," the American Whigs took the name of the English Whig Party, which opposed the power of the monarchy and supported Parliamentary control.