Gang Land
This violent, organized crime figure was finally convicted of tax evasion, even thought he was a murderer, bootlegger, mob boss.
Who is Al Capone?
This legislation outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor.
What is the 18th Amendment?
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of this.
What is Evolution?
Pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
He coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age' which described the 1920's?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
In charge of Prohibition enforcement.
Who is the Bureau within the Treasury Department of the IRS?
Defined intoxicating liquor and set up agency of enforcement for prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
It highlighted the struggle between science and religion in American schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Film widely credited with heralding in the age of "talkies" and the end of the silent film era.
What is 'The Jazz Singer'?
An indigenous musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's.
What is Jazz?
Person who transports illegal liquor during Prohibition.
What is a bootlegger?
A popular nickname for homemade liquor?
What is Bathtub Gin?
The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes in the Monkey Trail.
Who is Clarence Darrow?
Arrested for teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee law.
Who is John T. Scopes?
Jazz pianist and composer. Wrote "Mood Indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady."
Who is Duke Ellington?
An underground saloon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally.
What is a speakeasy?
Prohibition was ended in 1933 by this legislation.
What is the 21st Amendment?
He was called as a witness in the Scopes trial as an expert on the Bible.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
1st woman to swim the English Channel, setting a new world record.
What is Gertrude Ederle?
Trumpet player considered the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Incident in which Al Capone's Gang entered a garage and machine-gunned members of the Moran Gang.
What is St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
Which of the following was illegal under prohibition? Choose one answer. a. using wine in religious services b. selling alcoholic beverages in international waters c. selling equipment used to make alcoholic beverages d. bringing alcoholic beverages into the U.S. from Canada
What is D?
This movie is the dramatic depiction of the Scopes Monkey Trial from the 1920's.
What is 'Inherit the Wind'?
First American to win a Nobel Prize for literature, he took aim at the shallow, stifling existence of middle-class America in such novels as Main Street and Babbitt.
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
Became the place to go to see the best Jazz music
What is Harlem?