Prohibition
The 18th amendment banned the sale, manufacturing, and this of alcohol.
What is transportation?
Organized crime was funded by the sale of this.
What is alcohol?
This president was business oriented and reduced regulations on industry.
Who is Coolidge?
in 1929, this institution crashed.
What is the stock market?
Dust Bowl refugees were called this.
What are Okies?
This holy institution was exempted from prohibition.
What is the Catholic Church?
Organized crime purchased casinos for this purpose.
What is to launder money?
Although the cards did not exist yet, Americans used this to borrow money for consumer goods.
What is credit?
What is a Hooverville?
A photographer who wanted to spread awareness of rural struggles
Who is Dorothea Lange?
A location where you can find a drink during prohibition. You'll need a password though.
What is a speakeasy?
Al Capone and other mob bosses paid $500,000 per/month for this to keep police, politicians, and federal investigators happy.
What are bribes?
The family that Americans where trying to keep up with.
Who are the Jones?
Uh oh! Everyone is defaulting on their loans? If I rush to pull my money out of my account I am contributing to this.
What is a bank run?
This act provided settlers with 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Feeling sick? Head over to the doctor who will write you one of these for medicinal alcohol.
What is a prescription?
Organized crime had to hire these professions (name one type) to keep the books clean.
What is an attorney?
What is an accountant?
A term used for many young women who lived in the city.
What is a flapper?
Unemployment rose to this percent of the country.
What is 25%?
The result of breathing in too much dust that could result in death.
What is dust pneumonia?
This constitutional amendment repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st amendment?
Arnold Rothstein who smuggled alcohol into the US via the Great Lakes was famous for fixing this.
What is the 1919 World Series?
This mustached man used humor in his films and became a celebrity.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Some "investors" borrowed money to buy stocks on this.
What is "on margin"?
Farmers switched from the Lister to this more efficient form of plowing.
What is the One-way Disk Plow?