1920's Culture: Women, Prohibition & Harlem Reinassance

Prohibition was started in 1919 by which amendment?

• 17

• 18

• 19

• 21

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

• criminals
• smugglers
• bootleggers
• mobsters

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

Al Capone and mobsters like him during the prohibition era created

• Speakeasy

• bootleggers

• organized crime

The director of the FBI during the 1920's Palmer Raids was

• Elliot Ness

• J. Edgar Hoover

• John Dillinger

• Enoch Johnson

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

Which word does not belong?

• The Great Migration

• Flappers, bootleggers

• Speakeasy

• The 18th Amendment

BEFORE the stock market crash, which is true of most Americans?

• They invested in the stock market/had jobs/enjoyed a good life

• They were mostly poor living in urban areas

• They did not have any money

• They did not drink alcohol since it was illegal

Which phrases or terms are best connected to the majority of the 1920’s?

• Bear market

• Roaring, prosperous, The Harlem Renaissance

• Debt, overproduction of goods

• Black Tuesday, The Stock Market Crash

Which term or phrase does not connect with the term Temperance or Prohibition?

• The 21st Amendment

• Mafia/Gangsters

• Moonshine/Bootleggers

• Speakeasies/Alcohol