CRIME AND CORRUPTION

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WHAT IS A SPEAKEASY
ILLEGAL DRINKING SALOON
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WHAT IS A BOOTLEGGER
ONE WHO PRODUCED/SOLD ALCOHOL ILLEGALLY
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WHAT CENTURY WAS PROHIBITION DURING?
19TH CENTURY
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REASONS FOR PROHIBITION (ALCOHOL)
WOMEN = CAUSED BEATING AND CHILD ABUSE HENRY FORD/INDUSTRIALISTS = HAD LINKS WITH EFFICIENCY AT WORK RELIGIOUS GROUPS = ROOT OF SIN AND EVIL
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NAME A ORGANISATION THAT WERE FOR THE PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL
WOMENS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT AND THE ANTI SALOON LEAGUE
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WHAT YEAR WAS BEEN PRODUCTION BANNED UNTIL THE WAR ENDED
1918
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BY WHO WAS IT BANNED BY
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
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WHAT HAPPENED IN 1919
THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
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WHAT WAS THIS AMENDMENT
THE MANUFACTURING OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS STOPPED
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1920
THE VOLSTEAD ACT
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WHAT WAS THE VOLSTEAD ACT
DEFINED THAT INTOXICATING LIQUORS WERE ANYTHING CONTAINING 0.5% ALCOHOL
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WHO BECAME RESPONSIBLE FOR ENFORCING PROHIBITION
THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
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WHAT HAPPENED DURING LIFE UNDER PROHIBITION
PEOPLE BREAKING LAWS TO MAKE OR CONSUME ALCOHOL
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SMUGGLING TOOK PLACE FROM WHERE?
EUROPE, MEXICO, CANADA
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HEALTH DURING PROHIBITION?
DEATHS FELL BY 80% BLINDNESS AND PARALYSIS INCREASED FROM POISONED ALCOHOL
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WHAT DECREASED?
AMOUNT OF BREWING INDUSTRIES IN USA
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WHAT WAS PROVED IMPOSSIBLE?
THE ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION
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WHY DID A NEW CRIMINAL AGE BEGIN
MORE AMERICANS WERE BREAKING THE PROHIBITION LAW
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WHAT BROUGHT PROFITS
MAKING/SELLING ALCOHOL
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1920S
A MASSIVE GROWTH OF PUBLIC CORRUPTION ON A SCALE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
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WHAT DID THE LAST 1920S SEE
MASSIVE OPPOSITION TO PROHIBITION
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GROUPS FORMED, WHY
TO SHOW THAT PEOPLE WERE ALL AGAINST PROHIBITION
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WHEN DID THE PROHIBITION LAW BECOME ABOLISHED
DECEMBER 1933
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ORGANISED CRIME = WHAT?
WERE CRIMINAL GROUPS BEFORE PROHIBITION BUT PROHIBITION IN 1920S SAW A GROWTH OF THEIR POWER
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HOW DID PROHIBITION ALLOW THEM TO ACHIEVE THIS
THEY COULD CARRY OUT CRIMINAL OFFENCES SUCH AS BOOTLEGGING
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ORGANISED CRIME GANGS SAW THEMSELVES AS WHAT
BUISNESSMEN
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HOW DID THE OVER COME THE RIVALS
VIOLENCE AND MURDER
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WHAT WERE RACKETS
THIS IS WHAT THE GANGS WERE KNOWN AS
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NAME A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A GANGSTER
AL CAPONE
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HOW DID HE CEMENT HIS POSITION OF LEADING GANGSTER
BRIBED OFFICIALS
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HE WAS CONTROLLING PEOPLE TO CEMENT HIMSELF AS LEADER WHO DID HE CONTROL
THE MAYOR (BIG BILL THOMSON) AND POLITICIANS
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WHAT ELSE DID HE CONTROL
SPEAKEASIES, DISTILLERIES, BREWERIES
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WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YEARS 1925-29
SAW OVER 200 OF HIS RIVALS KILLED
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WHAT WAS AL CAPONE SEEN AS
A GLAMOROUS MAN BY MANY
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WHAT DATE WAS THE ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
14'TH FEB 1929
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WHO ESCAPED
BUGS MORAN - LEADER OF RIVAL CHI CARGO GANG
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WHO WERE KILLED
7 OF HIS MEN KILLED IN GARAGE BY AL CAPONES MEN - THEY ENTERED PRETENDING TO BE POLICE
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WHAT DID AMERICANS DECIDE
THAT AL CAPONE WAS NO LONGER A GLAMOROUS MAN
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WHAT HAPPENED TO AL CAPONE IN 1931
WAS ARRESTED FOR INCOME TAX EVASION
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WHAT WAS CLAIMED?
THAT HE OWED MORE THAN $200,000 FROM GAMBLING PROFITS
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HIS GANG LEADER POSITION WAS OVER WHY?
HE WAS FOUND GUILTY
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WHERE ELSE WAS THE CORRUPTION
TOWNS CITIES AND THE GOVERNMENT
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WHAT DID 1919 SEE
PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING PROMISING USA THAT IT WOULD RETURN TO NORMALCY
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WHAT CAUSED THE UN-NORMALCY BEFORE
THE WW1 DISTRESS
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TO RETURN TO NORMALCY WHAT DID HE DO
SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES FROM OHIO
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WHAT DID THEY NAME THEMSELVES?
THE OHIO GANG
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WHAT WAS THE DISADVANTAGE OF THIS
MANY FROM THE OHIO GANG USED THEIR POSITION TO CLAIM MONEY IN THEIR POCKETSQ
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TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
ALBERT FALL HARDINGS SECRETARY LEASED GOVERNMENTS FIELDS FOR OIL TO WEALTHY FRIENDS FOR MONEY
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WHAT HAPPENED TO ALBERT FALL
FOUND GUILTY OF BRIBERY IN 1929 FINED $100,000 AND 1 YEAR IN PRISON
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