The Mob
This Constitutional amendment indirectly allowed the mob to gain power and money.
What is the 19th amendment/Prohibition?
Going along with the title of this category, (just for a little spice) this is the best character in Attack on Titan.
Who is Levi Ackerman?
This American writer wrote the Great Gatsby (10/10 book, would recommend).
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This American politician was the first ever cabinet member convicted of a felony committed while in office.
Who is Albert B. Fall?
This politician and lawyer was the 30th president of the United States.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This notorious hit on an enemy gang outraged the public and prompted the police to work even harder to get rid of the mob.
What is the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
This is one of the many ways that people got around Prohibition.
What are selling bricks of grape juice for people to ferment, bribing police, speakeasies, posing as doctors, posing as religious leaders, going to the doctor and religious leaders, using or selling the alcohol they already had, buying illegal stills, going to speakeasies, staging robberies of their own alcohol, secret compartments in their houses, moonshine, and just straight up selling it?
This California based industry boomed during the 1920s, putting America on top with its countless productions that captivated the world.
What are movies/Hollywood?
This deserter and acquaintance of Harding was put in charge of the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs by the president. He gave himself the rank of colonel in the United States Army, embezzled nearly 250 million dollars from the Bureau of Veterans' Affairs, and sold U.S. veterans hospital supplies to his friends.
Who is Charles R. Forbes?
The 19th Amendment of the US Constitution did this.
What is Women's Suffrage/gave women the right to vote
The members of the mafia (in America) were immigrants from or were descended from people from this country.
What is Italy?
Only 1,500 people total were in this federal agency. Its small numbers and often times untrained staff made it very difficult to enforce anything.
What is the Prohibition Unit/Bureau of Prohibition?
This age/period of music history began in the 1920s.
What is the Jazz age?
This scandal involved secretary Interior, Albert Fall, who accepted valuable gifts & large sums of money from private oil companies. In exchange Fall allowed the oil companies to control government oil reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
It was on this day of the week that the stock market crashed, thus marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Thursday?
Al Capone was convicted of this when he was sentenced to 11 years in prison
What is tax evasion?
This was sold to some self-pronounced Prohibitionists on the Congress floor.
What is alchohol?
This was a Black led artistic and cultural revolution that took place in 1920's New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This woman was FDR's mistress whose affair with the president was encouraged by the First Lady's cousin.
Who is Lucy Mercer?
This politician was self admittedly not very human like but rather more like a robot. Not in a crazy way, but moreso in the being the human embodiment if the color beige way. (He said this when comparing himself to his opponent after an election.)
Who is Toby?
Just kidding who is Woodrow Wilson? (Probably)
This Jewish mobster (who was committing crimes on the less violent side at the time of the rest of these events) is accredited with making Las Vegas what it is.
Who is Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel?
This is a description of the financial agreement that was in the Dawes Plan.
What is America gave Germany a loan to give England and France loans to pay back America with our own money because everyone else was in debt?
What type of (illegal) establishment caused positive social change by giving people a place where they could come together and have fun no matter their race or gender.
What are speakeasies?
This secretary was the 29th president's mistress who later went on to publish a book about her affair. (In 2015 DNA testing proved that president Harding was her daughter's father.)
Who is Nanna "Nan" Britton?
What state was the 29th president from? (1 probably inconsequential hint allowed because I'm Alex Trebek and I do what I want.)
What is Ohio?