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The Untouchables, the Depression and the Prohibition Years
Name __________________________________
1. Prohibition was provided for by the:
a. Eighteenth Amendment
b. Lever Act
c. Twenty-first Amendment
d. Volstead Act
2. The law passed to enforce prohibition was the
a. Wagner Act
b. Volstead Act
c. Taylor Act
d. Lever Act
3. One of the main reasons that Prohibition was supported was
a. people were afraid of the new immigrants drinking habits
b. people felt that they weren’t getting taxes from liquor
c. people felt that alcohol should only be sold by the government
d. people felt that alcohol should be controlled by the government
4 Clubs and bars where alcoholic drinks were "secretly" served during the era of Prohibition were called:
a. hoovervilles
b. cotton gins
c. honky-tonks
d. speakeasies
5. The term applied to any person who engaged in the illegal manufacture, transport, or sale of liquor is:
a. barfly
b. bootlegger
c. flapper
d. southpaw
6. Eliot Ness's special team of agents was called the "Untouchables" because:
a. time and time again they miraculously survived feverish machine gun battles with Al Capone's gangsters
b. since they were handpicked by Ness to pursue Al Capone,
c. most of them were former gangsters and convicts
d. they refused to turn be corrupted by offers from organized crime
7. Al Capone was eventually imprisoned on charges of:
a. fraud
b. manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol
c. racketeering
d. income tax evasion
8.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Women received the right to vote in federal elections in
1776
1820
1920
1963
9.
a.
b.
c.
d.
What event in the early 1900's sparked a tremendous wave of Mexican immigration into the United States?
An influenza outbreak in Mexico City
The Mexican Revolution
Famine
a depression
10.
a.
c.
d.
e.
The Spanish American War was fought in
1497
1780
1898
1935
11.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The future American President who was a hero during the Spanish-American war was
John F. Kennedy
Teddy Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower
12.
a.
b.
c.
d.
In U.S. history, Prohibition meant
the closing of U.S. borders to new immigrants
the outlawing of slavery
laws forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
state regulations against collective bargaining
13.
a.
b.
c.
d.
He was elected President four times
Washington
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Bush
14.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Great Depression started in
1829
1879
1929
1959
15.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Who was the youngest US president when his term began in 1901?
John Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Ben Franklin
16.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Puerto Rico became a territory of the US because of
World War I
World War II
The Spanish-American War
The US-Mexican War
17.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Which president was not assassinated?
Lincoln
McKinley
Johnson
Kennedy
18.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The 1925 trial of John Scopes involved a conflict between
communists and industrialists
science and religion
the Ku Klux Klan and civil rights advocates
supporters and opponents of a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages
19.
a.
b.
c.
d.
The New Deal was the name given to
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy
Harry S. Truman's domestic programs
Franklin D. Roosevelt's social and economic reforms
Lyndon B. Johnson's social programs
20.
a.
b.
c.
d.
An oil reserve called Teapot Dome gave its name to
a scandal involving bribery during the Harding administration
a corrupt group of New York City Democrats under Boss Tweed
an energy commission set up by Jimmy Carter
an act of rebellion by Boston colonists
21. The Russian Revolution took place in
a. 1678
b. 1776
c. 1887
d. 1917
22. The US joined World War I in
a. 1810
b. 1880
c. 1917
d. 1941
23. In World War the US fought against
a. Russia
b. Japan
c. Germany
d. Spain