Exam 2: Development of Organized Crime in the United States

According to the Kefauver Committee, all members of organized crime were:

Prohibition was accomplished by the political efforts of an economically declining segment of the _____________.

One of the roots of organized crime can be found in the political machine.

ongressional interest in organized crime in 1950 resulted in the ___________ hearings.

hy did Irish immigrants in the 19th century get so involved in politics?

How did John D. ockefeller earn his fortune?

In what year was the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) established?

The __________ strengthened the language of the Eighteenth Amendment and defined all beverages containing more than 0.5 percent alcohol as intoxicating.

hat are the characteristics of "political machines?"

In what year was the first temperance society established?

Who wrote a pamphlet in 1785 that helped fuel the move toward prohibition which, more than 130 years later, resulted in the Volstead Act (Prohibition)?

In what city did a special grand jury, in 1928, find that certain members of that city's police department received a total of $2 million in bribes annually?

Throughout much of urban America, the ________ was a center of neighborhood activity and an important social base for political activity.

iscuss the importance of the saloon in urban America during the late nineteenth century.

Reformers in the late 19ᵗʰ and early 20ᵗʰ century were often part of rampant __________ that at times intertwined with social Darwinism.

In what city were three Prohibition agents indicted for selling seized liquor to bootleggers ten days after the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect?