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100

Income  Tax introduced 

1913

100

By 1930 he virtually controlled the city of Chicago. Who was he? 

Al Capone

100

What was the Charleston? 

A new dance of the 1920s 

100

Set up by alcoholics to help other alcholics in the early 19th century I was named after a former US President. 

The Washingtonian Societies 

100

The 21 Club in New York was one of these 

Speakeasy 

200

America joins the First World War 

1917

200

The prohibition agent who was to put Chicago's biggest prohibition gangster in prison for tax evasion 

Eliot Ness 

200

The 1920s is often called the 'what' age? 

the Jazz age

200

Francis Willard was my leader

WCTU 

200

They brought illegal liquor supplies into big cities from places like the West Indies and Canada. 

Bootleggers 

300

Anti Saloon League and Women's Christian Temperance Union started in these years

1893 and 1873 

300
Which gangster was badly injured by Bugs Moran and retired - handing over power to the 26 year old Al Capone? 

Terrible Johnny Torrio

300
What new invention allowed young people to more easily escape the attention of parents and chaperones? 

the automobile 

300

The Anti Saloon League was founded in this State

Ohio - the name of the town was Oberlin 

300

Alcohol made in illegal stills at home was known as? 

Moonshine 

400

By 1929 how many speak-easies were in New York 

32000

400

Who was the American President when the Prohibition era began in October 1919? 

Woodrow Wilson 

400
Rudolf Valentino was hugely famous in 1920s America. What was his job? 

Hollywood star / Actor 

400

The main trigger of Prohibition 

America entering into the First World War 

400

In 1920s America its agents patrolled about 200000 squares miles each

The Prohibition Bureau 

500

Deaths from acholic poisoning went up frmo 98 in 1920 to what in 1926? 

760

500

During the 1920s this figure was America's most famous baseball player. 

Babe Ruth 

500

Who would I be visiting if I took the New York ferry to Liberty Island? 

The statue of Liberty 

500

Temperance originally meant what exactly? 

Moderating your drinking 

500

Two Gun Hart's famous relative 

Al Capone 

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