Prohibition in USA

Question 1

When was Prohibition?

Answer 1

From 1919 to 1933

Question 2

What was prohibition?

Answer 2

A period of time where the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol was illegal throught the US

Question 3

What was the 18th Amendment?

Answer 3

Change to the consitution which made Volstead Act apple to all states

Question 4

Why did people want prohibition?

Answer 4

alcohol was sinful and immoral
bomestic violence
led to increases crime 
caused diseases
wasteful- grain could be used for food
Alcohol led to lost production 
politicians supported it to win votes 
patriotic move against Germans

Question 5

How many people died becasue of alcohol?

Answer 5

10,000

Question 6

How many children were under the influence of domestic violence?

Answer 6

3000

Question 7

Who were bottleggers?

Answer 7

People who transported illegal alcohol (moonshine) to speakeasies

Question 8

How did the US enforce Prohibition?

Answer 8

Enactment of the Volstead Act
Creation of coeast guard
Creation of federal agents 
education adn propaganda
prosecution took place if somebody drank
police raids on speakeasies

Question 9

What did the coast guard do?

Answer 9

stop illegal imports from Cuba, Bahamas and Canada

Question 10

how many agents were hired?

Answer 10

1500-2300 agents

Question 11

How many area did each agent have?

Answer 11

200,000 miles

Question 12

Name two famous prohibition agents

Answer 12

Isadore Einstein and Moe Smith

Question 13

How many arrests did Enstein and Moe make?

Answer 13

4392

Question 14

How many stills were seized?

Answer 14

282,000

Question 15

How much did the consumption of beer decrease?

Answer 15

20 million gallons in 1920 to 14 million gallons in 1933

Question 16

How many gallons of spririt did federal agents seize?

Answer 16

11,860,000

Question 17

How many arrests were made by prohibition agents?

Answer 17

66,878

Question 18

Why was prohibition a failure?

Answer 18

Corruption of the work force
Rise of gangsters and crime
More speakeasies opened
Did not imprve the nation’s health

Question 19

What ratio were agents corrupt?

Answer 19

1 in 12 agents

Question 20

How much were prohibition agents paid?

Answer 20

2,500 dollars a year

Question 21

How much did alcapone pay to have his choice of mayor?

Answer 21

250,000

Question 22

What was the homicide rate?

Answer 22

78%

Question 23

How many gangland muders happened?

Answer 23

130

Question 24

What did the rise of the gangsters increase?

Answer 24

Increase in the rise of:
prostitution 
drug trafficking 
gambling 
murder

Question 25

How much did gangsters make off of gambling?

Answer 25

25 million

Question 26

How much did gangsters make off of prostitution?

Answer 26

10 million

Question 27

How much did Al capone make from bootlegging?

Answer 27

60 million

Question 28

How much profits were made from bootlegging?

Answer 28

2 billion

Question 29

When was the St. Valentine's Massacre?

Answer 29

1929

Question 30

How many ppl were killed at the Valentine's Massacre?

Answer 30

7 people

Question 31

How many speakeasies were there in Detroit in 1925?

Answer 31

15,000

Question 32

How many speakeasies were there in New York in 1925?

Answer 32

32,000

Question 33

What was the time taken to find a speakeasy in Chicago?

Answer 33

21 min

Question 34

What was the time taken to find a speakeasy in Pittsburg?

Answer 34

11 min

Question 35

What was the time taken to find a speakeasy in New Orleans?

Answer 35

35 sec

Question 36

How many people died of bad moonshine in 1926?

Answer 36

760 people

Question 37

What were the causes of the end of prohibition?

Answer 37

``` Violent crime wave Failed to improve health Great Depression Lack of public support Profits and business of liquor ```

Question 38

How was the great depression the reason for the end of prohibition?

Answer 38

Morale alcohol creates jobs and prosperity government could get taxes from alcolhol to pay for New Deal FDR promised to repeal the Volstead Act for votes

Question 39

How much miney did the government pay on prohibition?

Answer 39

$13.4million

Question 40

Whick public figure did not support prohibition?

Answer 40

Rockefeller

Question 41

What was prohibition regarded as?

Answer 41

the ills of society

Question 42

Who capaigned against Prohibtion?

Answer 42

Smart society women

Question 43

How much money would governemnt take taxes from liquor businesses?

Answer 43

11 billion to stabilize the economy

Question 44

What were speakeasies?

Answer 44

Illegal bars run by gangsters- there was a door and a password was needed to get in