Rural vs. Urban

Prohibition

100

This group supported prohibition the most

What is the Anti-Saloon League? 

200

This was the nickname given to people who smuggled alcohol into the USA from Canada and Mexico

What are Rum-runners?

300

One of the exceptions to the prohibition law

What are religious purposes?

400

When Congress made the Volstead Act, this was the percent of alcohol that was defining an intoxicating alcoholic beverage

What is 0.5 percent? 

500

How do the 18th and 21st Amendment relate in terms of prohibition? 

What is the 18th was the Amendment that started it and the 21st ended it? 

Rural Culture

100

This was typically made at home in rural areas

What is Moonshine?

200

This state was one of the most pro prohibition

What is Iowa?

300

The rural areas were more in favor of this compared to urban areas

What is Prohibition?

400

These two things changed for urban communities, but not for rural communities

What is attitude and lifestyle?

500

The rural people had these four things about them that were different from the urban people

What is Traditionalists, outsiders, routinely, and were big on personal ties?

Urban Culture

100

This place was an illegal selling point for alcohol in the cities

What is a speakeasies?

200

This increased as prohibition went on, this was common in large cities such as Chicago

What is crime? 

300

This is an alternate to alcohol and took a rise during the time of prohibition

What are drugs? 

400

This was what President Herbert Hoover called Prohibition, "a great social economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose"

What is The Noble Experiment? 

500

Prohibition caused these massive violent protests.

What are riots? 

Government Corruption

100

These people paid off the government to allow them to smuggle alcohol

What are gangs?

200

The year that the Investigation Bureau (FBI) was founded

What is 1924?

300

This happened on February 14, 1929 at the climax of the gangster wars between Bugs Moran and Al Capone

What is St. Valentines Day Massacre of 1929?

400

This was a group of politicians that were in positions of power during Warren Harding's Presidency, they betrayed the public's trust in many different scandal

What is the Ohio Gang?

500

The crime boss who controlled Detriot

Who is Chester La Mare?

Impact of Prohibition

100

When the alcohol industry was changing what did people lose

What are jobs? 

200

This had negative impact instead of a positive impact on what aspect of the country

What is the economy? 

300

This was on the rise since people were making their own liquor at home

What are poisoned liquor deaths? 

400

As gangsters started selling alcohol, ________ ______ started. 

What is organized crime? 

500

This was the expected positive outcome of prohibition that never happened

What is getting men out of saloons and back to their homes to take care of their families?