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Explain Prohibition
Nationwide ban on the manufactured and sale of alcohol
What year did Prohibition start
January 17, 1920
The large scale movement of 6 million African-Americans leaving the South between 1916 and 1970 known as
The Great Migration
The term refers to modern women of the 1920's who were non-conformist in attitudes in style, clothing and hairstyles
Flapper
League of Nations
International organization to ensure World Peace
18th Amendment
banned alchohol
Speakeasies
His new invention the telephone became more widely available in the 1920's
Alexander Graham Bell
The Urban boom refers to
People leaving farms for the cities
By 1830 how much alcholol did the average American over the age of 15 consume.
7 gallons
Why did supporters believe in eliminating alcohol
They believed it would help with poverty, crime and poverty
Nineteenth Amendment
Gave women the right to vote (women's suffrage movement)
This New invention brought Entertaiment, sporting events, news and advertising into people's homes
Radio
What genre of music started in the 1920's
Jazz
Name the Chicago gangster who earned $60 million annually from bootlegging to 10,000 speakeasies.
Al Capone
Why was Prohibition unsuccessful in the long run?
People continued to drink alcohol and crime increased
Term refers to people who transported illegal alcohol
bootleggers
Prohibition ended in what year
1933
The term U.S. adopted after World War 1 when it came to foreign affairs
Isolationism
In Chicago 1929 a group of men dressed as policeman (and believed to have been associated with Capone) shot and killed a group of men in an enemy gang the on Valentines Day. Authorities referred to this day as
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
What was Temperance Movement
A widespread effort by numerous groups to of people in the early 1900's fought to limit or eliminate the consumption of alcohol
21st Amendment repealed or took away
the 18th Amendment and ended Prohibition
Using this process Henry Ford was able to innovate automobile production which increase the number cars being made which lowered the prices for consumers?
Assembly line
President Wilson's 14 points refers to
Outlined his goals for lasting peace.
Why were most Americans convinced Prohibition created more problems than it solved?
People continued to drink
Crime and murders increased
Organized crime members got rich from bootlegging