Prohibition
Gangsters
Racketeering
Al Capone
Miscellaneous
100
Length of prohibition
What is 13 years?
100
Gangsters thrived off of this
What is the fear they caused?
100
The two major types of racketeering
What is labor and gang racketeering?
100
Al Capone's nickname
What is "Scarface"?
100
Famous young-adult novel about Al Capone
What is "Al Capone Does My Shirts"?
200
The number amendment that banned the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
200
Idea proved by gangsters
What is money could buy power?
200
Reason racketeering was effective
What is gangs would carry out legit threats
200
The names of Al Capone's brothers
Who are Frank and Ralph?
200
Total # of amendments
What is 27 amendments?
300
The number amendment that essentially repealed prohibition
What is 21st amendment?
300
Type of gangster most commonly an immigrant or born of immigrants
What is a mobster?
300
Illegal activity that funded racketeering
What is bootlegging?
300
"Al" Capone's full first name
Who is Alphonse?
300
U.S. racial-hate group not commonly considered a gang
What is the KKK?
400
Number of years it took for the gradual illegalization of alcohol
What is 70 years?
400
The "lucky" gangster
Who is Charles "Lucky" Luciano?
400
Amount of money Al Capone made in the first 2 years on racketeering alone
What is $45 million?
400
Penalty faced by Capone
What is 11 years in Alcatraz?
400
Another nickname for the "Tommy Gun"
What is "Chicago Typewriter"?
500
Amount of money Al Capone made in the first two years off of alcohol sales alone
What is $60 million?
500
Number of gangsters killed in a 4-year span during the 1920s
What are 227 gangsters?
500
Reason gangsters would be hired by businesses for racketeering
What is control of finances and competition?
500
Disney character sometimes compared to Capone
Who is Robinhood?
500
Common misconception about homicide during the 1920s
What is it did not increase with the increase of gang violence?
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