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Backround
How people avoided it
Effects on the country
Famous people
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What is one of the reasons prohibition was put into place?
reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America
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What are speakeasies?
selling of alcohol in secret
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Did soft drink companies get the growth they wanted?
no
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Who was the most famous of all American gangsters during the prohibition?
Al Capone
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The percentage of annual per capita income spent on alcohol had been steadily falling before Prohibition. True or False?
True
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Does rum-running or bootlegging describe the term for the smuggling of alcohol over water?
Rum-running
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How did the police become corrupt?
Accepted bribes
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Was William Fredrick Mccoy a sea-captain or a train conductor?
Sea-captain
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All the proposed benefits of Prohibition depended on what?
Reducing quantity of alcohol consumed
300
What is the street name for distilled homemade whisky
Moonshine
300
Many states lost revenue because they no longer received what tax?
Liquor
300
How much did Al Capone make approximately each year?
100 million
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Did prohibition decrease the amount of drinking?
Nope
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How would you gain access to a speakeasy?
secret knocks, passwords and handshakes
400
What happened to the homicide rate during prohibition?
Increase
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How did Al Capone die?
Heart Attack from a stroke
500
What were the years prohibition took place?
1920-1933
500
Where did the name speakeasy come from?
From the term speak easy while drunk
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How did the federal bureau react during prohibition
They didnt, they became corrupt as well like the police, accepting bribes
500
For what reason was Al Capone taken to jail for?
Not paying his taxes