Crime and Corruption

Question 1

reasons for prohibition

Answer 1

• 1873 Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• 1895 Anti Saloon League
• 1906 to 1911, 26 states limited sale of alcohol

Question 2

banning of alcohol

Answer 2

• 1918 USA banned production until end of war
• 1919 January, 18th Amendment
• 1920 National Prohibition Act, intoxicating liquor is anything more than 0.5% alcohol

Question 3

Internal Revenue Service

Answer 3

• IRS

- in charge of enforcing prohibition

Question 4

smuggling

Answer 4

• bootlegging: illegal trade in alcohol
• rum running ships
• doctors sold ‘medicinal’ whiskey earning $40 million

Question 5

health

Answer 5

• 1921, death by alcoholism fallen by 80%
• by 1926, 50000 people dead from alcohol poisoning
• increased cases of blindness and paralysis

Question 6

speakeasies

Answer 6

• 1200 legal bars led to 3000 speakeasies by 1923

Question 7

brewing industry

Answer 7

• St. Louis had 22 breweries before but only 9 after

Question 8

head of IRS

Answer 8

Emory Buckner

Question 9

padlocking

Answer 9

• padlock hotels for 6 months

- by 1925, 4700 premises had been padlocked

Question 10

IRS agents killed

Answer 10

in first 2 and a half years, 30 agents killed on the job

Question 11

Al Capone

Answer 11

• Italian
• Chicago
• ‘Scarface’
• had control of the mayor: Big Bill Johnson
• killed 200 rivals between 1925 and 1929

Question 12

St. Valentine’s day Massacre

Answer 12

• George ‘Bugs’ Moran, leader of North Side gang in Chicago
• Moran had $50000 bounty on Al Capone
• whiskey delivery
• seven of Moran’s gang members killed

Question 13

Ohio Gang

Answer 13

• Charles Forbes
• President Warren Harding
• Albert Fall
• Edwin Denby
• Harry Daugherty

Question 14

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 14

• Fall received $400000 from Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair
• oil reserves estimated to be worth $100 million
• 1927, Supreme Court ruled guilty
• found guilty in 1929 and fined $4100000