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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