USA - Crime and Corruption

USA - Crime and Corruption

Open Ended

Describe what is happening in the picture.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean if something is prohibited?

• It's allowed.

• It's banned.

• You have to do it.

• It's impossible to do.

Open Ended

Why did America ban alcohol in 1920?

Open Ended

What information does the source give you?

Open Ended

Why would the cartoonist draw this picture? What opinion do they have?

Open Ended

Which audience is being targeted? Why have they been chosen?

Open Ended

You need to add a piece of contextual knowledge to add to the source. What do you know about prohibition that could help your answer?

Open Ended

The date the source is produced is very important. What was going on when the source was created?

​Great Gatsby speakeasy scene - on OneDrive or on YouTube

Multiple Select

How can we tell that Prohibition failed in America? (3 answers)

• Americans kept drinking alcohol.

• Anyone could still go into a bar and buy an alcoholic drink.

• Bootleggers smuggled alcohol into the country illegally from Mexico and Canada.

• People made homemade alcohol called moonshine.

• Nobody was ever arrested for breaking the Prohibition laws.

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Multiple Select

Why was it possible for illegal alcohol to be smuggled into America? (two answers)

• The borders with Mexico and Canada were very long.

• There were too many enforcement agents to keep track of the illegal smuggling.

• There weren't enough enforcement agents to keep track of the smuggling.

• The borders with Mexico and Canada were very short.

​Video on OneDrive or YouTube - History Channel

​Simple History - In OneDrive or YouTube

Open Ended

Why did the American public turn against Al Capone?

Political Corruption​

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Multiple Choice

What was Attorney General Harry Daugherty alleged to have done?

• Killed his chief advisor, Jess Smith.

• Worked with bootleggers in the time of Prohibition.

• Worked with bootleggers before Prohibition.

• Stolen money from the government.

Multiple Choice

Charles Forbes was the Director of the Veterans' Bureau. What was his crime and what was his sentence?

• He embezzled $1,000,000 and was sent to prison for 10 years.

• He embezzled $10,000,000 and was sent to prison for 1 year.

• He embezzled $100,000,000 and was sent to prison for 5 years.

• He embezzled $250,000,000 and was sent to prison for 2 years.

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Open Ended

Explain why the Teapot Dome scandal showed corruption in the American government.