al capone and onwards book 1

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what was the nickname of al capone?
scaraface
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where did he operate ?
chicago
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where did al capones parents come from?
naples itallian
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name a job that he had before being a gangster?
bowling alley, cloth factory and bouncer
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where did al capone get his nickname from?
he got slashed in the face with a knife over someones sister.
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who did he organise to murder in order to bring bootlegging to chicago ?
big jim
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what did most people think of al capone when they met him?
people thought that he was nice and they didn't think he was doing it they only say his good nature and generosity.
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in 1922 wat did johnny torrio organise?
he organised for a peace agreement divided into gangs all around chicago.
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what would happen if a saloon would refuse to buy al capones alcohol ?
they were told that their alcohol would be stolen or they would get hurt and their place would be destroyed if they refused.
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how much did capons organisation take in per year?
120 million a year nd 60 million of that was profited from alcohol
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who did capone bribe in order to ensure his organisation would be safe ?
policemen and judges so people of the law.
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in 1923 what happened to the gangs in chicago ?
the agreement ends and gang leaders are starting to get murdered again.
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what happened to Robert st John and who was he ?
he was a reporter who exposed people on the pay roll of the capones.he got beaten up and put in the hospital although al capone paid for his hospital bills.
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what was capons preferred method of a hit and why/
soap in a sock because if you someone on the back of the head they died .
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where did the rival gangster o'Banion get murdered?
flower shop that he owned
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when tore died who took over his leadership?
it was passed to capone
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name a president that capone had more bodyguards than ?
president calvin coolidge
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what was the new style of weapon that the gangster fought in the streets with?
tommy gun
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in late september 1927 what happened to al capone ?
al capone was in a coffee shop and cars come by with machine guns and blazed the place no one was killed although he payed one injured persons hospital bills.
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how did capone respond to this?
made a new agreement and killed the gang leader weiyce
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what is the estimated amount of money that capone earned in 1927 ?
$1.5 million
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what did capone learn that his hitman , frankie yale was up to ?
stealing alcohol
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when did the st valentine day massacre happen ?
14 febuary 1929
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what happened ?
seven men were lined up against the wall in the north side garage and gunned down in execution style al capones gang pretended to be policemen and shot morons gang.
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how did capone get away with this ?
he was in florida he did order it
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why did the public start to turn against al capone
because of the st valentines day massacre
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how did al capone run his gang when he was in jail for a year ?
his phone privileges
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how did capone respond to the great depression?
he gave free food to the poor so people will like him -soup kitchens
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what was capons arrest for
not paying tax
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how long was he sentenced to jail for ?
11 years behind bars
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which prison was he moved to in 1934?
federal prision in atlanta he is moved to alkatraz
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how did he die
in jail capone was diagnosed with syphalis at age 48 died of cardiac arrest heart attack.
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what were the causes of the economic boom?
lassiex faire,tarifs,law taxes,assembly line. they had good resources e.g. coal and oil. they loaned countries in the WW1 money which meant they ebenfitted. henry ford production line and advertising.
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how many african americans moved up to the north ?
2 million
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what was the entertainment in the roaring twenties?
jazz music became much more popular and more people had electricity in america so home machines like radios became popular and jazz music only from the north that was made by african americans. cinema became more popular and sports e.g. boxing .
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why where all films made in hollywood
because it was always sunny there
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what were women lives like in the roaring twenties?
there were flappers who were mostly in urban areas but there were still traditional women who wore the same things as their mothers as some women couldn't afford to live like the flappers as they didnthave enough money more rural areas got more jobs.
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how many women were in jobs in 1929 ?
10 million
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what did america do with immigration
america advertised as a land of oppurtunity new immigrants from poland ,russia ,ukraine and italy and other places that aren't Wasps the government brought in the literacy test
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what happened to a shoe factory in the south ?
fred parmenter the paymaster of the show factory and an armed guard was attacked by two men
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how much money did the attackers escape with ?
$15,000
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what did parmenter say before he died ?
the attackers were slim foreigners with olive skins
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who was arrested for the crime ?
sacco and vendetta were arrested for robbery and murder
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who were sacco and venzetti ?
they were poorly educated and spoke very little english they were anarchist and they believed that courted should not be run by governments people should rule themselves. there was also apparently evidence against them.
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what were sacco and venzetti sentenced to?
death by the electric chair
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when were they both excecuted ?
23rd august 1927
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what happened because of the verdict
colorado miners went on strike because of the verdict
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what happened 50 years later ?
the governor of massachusettes gave them a formal pardon accepting that the trial had been unfair
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when was slavery abolished ?
1863
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what does segregation mean ?
separate but equal
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what was segregation like for the african americans
they were discrimnated against in housing,jobs , education and a few of them had the right to vote. They couldn't expect the same treatment in the courts and the judges were always white. the north wasn't any better but they were nicer than the south
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what were the jim crow laws
the us supreme court had given legal approval to treat african americans as inferior to whites
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did thheir lives get any better in the north that they expected
they expected their lives to drastically change but they didn't they were still discriminated against they had worse health services and education etc compare to the whites.
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what brought a new image to the back people and what was it?
the harlem renesiance as african americans were jazz players and white people liked the jazz music.
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what did the kkk stand for?
KuKluxKlan
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who where the members of the kkk?
they were mainly judges, policemen or the government. most whit people were scared of them so they would join out of fear. they were all white people and they targeted certain people it started with confeterets.
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who did they target?
african americans, jews,catholics and immigrant workers
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what did they look like?
they dressed in all white they had white sheets white hats and carrying the american flags .
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what were their methods?
their methods of violence and intimidation include whipping,branding with acid , kidnapping ,castration and lynching
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what sort of things did they do?
they stripped some of their victims and put burning hot tar and feathers on their bodies they created their own language.
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how did they scare people?
they would burn a cross at their meetings and sometimes out side of their citums places as a warning that they were watching
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what was their downfall
they went from 5 million followers to 300,000
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why did this happen?
when david stephenson who was a local kkk leader was convicted of kiddnapping and murder of a young white woman
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even tho the downfall what was still the same
the views and action dandy change they just weren't called the kkk anymore
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what were most of the members and where were they from
most members were poor white people and mainly fro the southern and westerns states.
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their statement was....
they tried to clean up americans society
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why weren't they stopped
because most the members were judges, government and police officers people were also scared they would be killed
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when did herbert hoover become president ?
1928
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what was going on when he became president ?
the great depression
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what happened in october 1929
the wall street crased impact larger than expected business lost money and some people lost money
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what sort of president was he
republican
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what did he believe in?
rugged induvisulism that america would fi its self
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what was his nickname
a do nothing president as he didn't do enough for the great depression.
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how much did unemployment rise to in 1933
14 million
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what did families rely on /
they relied on soup kitchens and breadlines to be fed
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what in 1931
238 people were admitted to hospital in new york for starvation and 45 of them died
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how many people became hobos and travelled around for work ?
1 million
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what were shantytowns called after
they were nicknamed hoovervilles after president hoover
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what happened to the farmers in the great depression
their income slipped by $5 billion the great depression made farmers life worse as they were already struggling in the 1920s they couldn't pay their mortgages
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