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What is the Volstead Act
What Act went along with the 18th Amendment in order to enforce Prohibition?
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Who is Al Capone
Who was the most notorious gangster of the Prohibition Era?
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What are saloons and speakeasies
What were underground locations meant for social drinking called?
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What is 1929
When was Al Capone arrested?
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What is because of the need to whisper a code word or name through a locked door in order to be allowed in
How did speakeasies get their name?
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What is The Temperance Movement
What movement, led mostly by women, piloted the ratification of prohibition?
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What is produce and sell bootleg alcohol by any means necessary
What did organized crime rings aim to do?
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What is transportation
Prohibition was the ban on the production, sale, and __________ of alcoholic beverages
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What is 1919
What year was the Volstead Act enacted?
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What is drinking alcohol
What did the 18th Amendment NOT ban?
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What is the 1920s
At the beginning of what decade did Prohibition come into effect?
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What is the Valentine's Day Massacre
What mass murder committed against seven members of Chicago's North Side Gang was highly publicized?
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What is by making their own liquor, even in their bathtubs
How did people avoid government taxation on liquor?
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What is 1920
What year did Capone join the Five Points Gang?
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Who is Eliot Ness
Who is mainly responsible for the fall of Al Capone?
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What is violence and harm to marriages and families
Women who led the movement leading up to prohibition argued that alcohol led to what?
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What is abuse, racketeering, bribery, and intimidation
What other crimes were gangs accused of other than production of illegal substances?
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What is the 21st Amendment
What amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, and made alcohol legal again?
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What is 1927
In what year was Al Capone estimated to have around $60 million is alcohol sales alone?
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What are "Blind Pigs"
What were dive bars called?
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What is Protestant religious leaders
What religious group joined women in the movement leading up to prohibition?
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What is contempt of court (for feigning illness to avoid an earlier appearance)
What was Al Capone arrested for?
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What is by prescribing whiskey to individuals without the need for it
How was the medical field involved in the spread of liquor?
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What is 1895
What year did the Anti-Saloon League, who supported prohibition, become a national organization?
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Who are The Untouchables
What were special agents of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition who, from 1930 to 1932, worked to end Al Capone's illegal activities?
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