1920's Prohibition & Crime

Prohibition was started in 1920 by which amendment?

• 17
• 18
• 19
• 21

The federal law that actually put Prohibition into effect was called the

• National Origins Act
• Emergency Quota Act
• Volstead Act 
• Dawes Act

People who illegally made & sold liquor in the US during Prohibition were known as

• criminals
• smugglers
• bootleggers
• mobsters

Bars that sold illegal alcohol during the 1920's were called

• bootlegging establishments
• speakeasies
• vamps
• flappers

Which of these was NOT a characteristic of Prohibition in the US?

• Americans frequently ignored the law & drank anyway
• police were bribed to look the other way 
• Congressmen all refrained from drinking alcohol
• violators of the law were either fined or imprisoned

One of the most powerful groups in the US during Prohibition helped get the era started. They were the

• National American Women's Suffrage Association
• Anti-Saloon League
• Women's Christian Temperance Union
• Salvation Army

The most well-known gangster of 1920s was 

• Baby Face Nelson
• Bugs Moran
• John Dillinger
• Al Capone

The director of the FBI during the 1920's was

• Elliot Ness
• J. Edgar Hoover
• John Dillinger
• Enoch Johnson

The event that symbolized the violence of the gang warfare of the 1920's was the

• arrest of Al Capone
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Irish vs Italian gang wars in Chicago
• death of Baby Face Nelson

The end of the Prohibition era came with the

• passage of the Volstead act
• 21st Amendment
• arrest of Al Capone
• start of the Great Depression